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Council OKs master plan for Rengstorff ParkA plan to guide the redevelopment of Rengstorff Park was approved by the City Council March 4, and it includes a remodeled...
Original post made on Mar. 17, 2014Last comment by John, on Mar 25, 2014 at 11:46 am | 6 comments | 8340 Views
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Open space district purchases secluded INE RanchFor decades, coyotes, hawks and dusky-footed woodrats have roamed the secluded INE Ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Few...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2014Last comment by Already Back, on Mar 25, 2014 at 6:16 am | 11 comments | 33246 Views
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Microsoft researcher wins prestigious computing awardLeslie Lamport, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley lab in Mountain View, has been awarded the...
Original post made on Mar. 24, 2014Last comment by Maher, on Mar 24, 2014 at 10:52 pm | 1 comment | 17779 Views
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Not just another chain restaurantThe verdict on Paul Martin's American Grill, a new chain outpost in Mountain View: uniformly flavorful food, generous portions...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2014Last comment by Max Hauser, on Mar 24, 2014 at 2:29 pm | 5 comments | 28637 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Young Children's Spring FaireYOU’RE INVITED to a Waldorf spring celebration for young children (nursery and kindergarten ages). Saturday, May 3 10am...
Original post made by Waldorf School of the Peninsula on Mar. 24, 2014There are no comments yet. 2565 Views
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'Google park' now a possibilityWith Google in the midst of a donation-spree that seems timed to counter it becoming a symbol for Bay Area gentrification...
Original post made on Mar. 10, 2014Last comment by MV Council Seats Branding, on Mar 23, 2014 at 4:56 pm | 24 comments | 15797 Views
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Place-making' expert dazzles council with San Antonio planNationally renowned place-making expert Fred Kent presented his plan to the City Council Tuesday for making a "great place"...
Original post made on Mar. 7, 2014Last comment by Garrett83, on Mar 23, 2014 at 10:20 am | 134 comments | 44631 Views
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Drought affects wildlife on first day of springThe sunny, warm weather may be a pleasure for humans, but it is showing signs of negatively impacting local wildlife, a Midpeninsula...
Original post made on Mar. 20, 2014Last comment by UC Davis Grad, on Mar 22, 2014 at 3:45 pm | 8 comments | 6302 Views
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City should plan to redress the jobs-housing imbalanceMountain View, along with other industrial suburbs on the Peninsula, has suffered from a jobs-housing imbalance for decades,...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2014Last comment by Old Ben, on Mar 22, 2014 at 6:35 am | 5 comments | 7308 Views
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Council reverses course on pod car ideaMountain View officials may like the pod car concept, but don't mistake them for angel investors. After several years of...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2014Last comment by CommonSense, on Mar 21, 2014 at 9:41 pm | 1 comment | 9957 Views
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Gas leak reported near Moffett FieldA PG&E gas line was struck by work crews near Moffett Field in Sunnyvale Thursday afternoon causing a gas leak, a PG&E spokeswoman...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2014There are no comments yet. 5482 Views
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SUV hits trees, ties up traffic in police chaseA suspected drunk driver hit multiple parked cars, bounced off of two trees on Shoreline Boulevard, ran a red light and drove...
Original post made on Mar. 19, 2014Last comment by chuck mangione, on Mar 21, 2014 at 6:29 am | 6 comments | 7788 Views
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Ames' flying robot and airline traffic projects in spotlightIn a tour of NASA Ames on Monday, NASA chief Charles Bolden stopped to listen to engineers discuss several projects that...
Original post made on Mar. 20, 2014Last comment by Max Hauser, on Mar 20, 2014 at 4:57 pm | 1 comment | 19081 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Medical community rallies around injured Egyptian womanWhen Gehane Guirguis set out for a short vacation in July 2012, she could not have foreseen how the trip from Cairo, Egypt,...
Original post made on Mar. 20, 2014Last comment by Maher, on Mar 20, 2014 at 3:06 pm | 3 comments | 10652 Views
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Man gets beaten up, arrested for drunkennessPolice arrested a man on suspicion of being drunk in public in the parking lot behind a Castro Street bar, about an hour...
Original post made on Mar. 19, 2014Last comment by Old Ben, on Mar 20, 2014 at 9:42 am | 9 comments | 5852 Views
ELECTIONS
City needs more housing, says 'balanced' growth campaign leaderIt's a City Council election year, but one of the more active political campaigns might not be run by a council candidate....
Original post made on Mar. 14, 2014Last comment by Orest, on Mar 20, 2014 at 12:26 am | 18 comments | 4974 Views
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Council quiet on North Bayshore housingMountain View City Council members are paving the way for a boom in office development, but they have been oddly silent on...
Original post made on Mar. 14, 2014Last comment by Moffett Resident, on Mar 19, 2014 at 10:40 pm | 12 comments | 27752 Views
SPORTS
Still swinging: Mountain View Tennis Club looks to expandThe Mountain View Tennis Club is set to spring into its 2014 season with its first tournament of the year. Read the full...
Original post made on Mar. 19, 2014Last comment by Bizarre..., on Mar 19, 2014 at 7:42 pm | 1 comment | 6528 Views
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Major Caltrain delays as dispatching system failsCaltrain is experiencing major system-wide delays this morning following a failure in its computerized dispatching system,...
Original post made on Mar. 19, 2014Last comment by Easy Commute, on Mar 19, 2014 at 2:32 pm | 4 comments | 5472 Views
AROUND TOWN
'Confusion' surrounding online education policy at MVHSRecent statements by Mountain View High School's principal questioning the value of online courses have highlighted tensions...
Original post made on Mar. 18, 2014Last comment by vkmo, on Mar 19, 2014 at 12:37 pm | 4 comments | 6009 Views
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