Los Altos Hills council adopts small-cell setbacks, rejects gas ban

A year’s worth of impassioned statements from Los Altos Hills residents protesting the implementation ...

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Pepper named new mayor of Los Altos; Fligor vice mayor

The Los Altos City Council voted 4-0 last week to confirm Councilwoman Jan Pepper as the city’s new mayor. Councilwoman Neysa Fligor was appointed vice mayor. 

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LASD aims to approve facilities master plan this school year

The Los Altos School District is aiming to approv...

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Los Altos School District purchases 10th school site

Capping off a years-long process, the Los Altos School District has bought nearly a dozen acres of land in...

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Jan Brett to share creative inspiration with local families

Los Altos-based Linden Tree Books is hosting prolific children’s book author and illustrator Jan Brett for a family-friendly event 5 p.m. Sunday at the Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto .

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Los Altos, LAH honor their volunteers

One runs a nonprofit organization that provides used furniture to people in need. Another is an ...

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Williams succeeds Svedeman as boys tennis coach at St. Francis High

Mike Williams is the new varsity boys tennis coach at St. Francis High.

Hired last month, Williams replaces Dick Svedeman, who retired at the end of the spring season.

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School records fall at state meet

Record runs by Lauren Soobrian and Adam Sage highlighted a banner day for Los Altos High at the state cross-country championships in Fresno, where the Eagles’ boys tea...

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Editorial : Not this year, but parade will go on

Bad weather led to the first-ever cancellation of the downtown Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade Dec. 1.

Obviously, everyone’s disappointed, from the parade organizers to the thousands of young children who were looking forward to their storybook characters coming to life.

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Editorial: Put a time limit on this council

Congratulations are in order for Jan Pepper, now beginning her second one-year stint as Los Altos mayor. Pepper previously served as mayor in 2015.

She will now preside over a city council that is well intentioned but could stand to improve its efficiency. Meetings have been dragging on and on. We ...

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Nutritious, warming winter soups you can make in a flash

Wintertime is homemade soup time. The following...

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All was calm, thanks to an easy Christmas brunch

We learn in the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” that when ’twas the night before Christmas, “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” The poem’s author, Clement Clark...

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Nest Egg Briefs: Giving your teenager a gift better than cash

Are you trying to come up with a creative gift to buy your teenagers for the holidays this year? Or have you given up and just plan to give them cash? In either case, they might qualify for an alternative gift that effectively keeps on giving for the rest of their lives: a Roth Individual Retirement...

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Transactions for the week of Dec. 11

Los Altos

58 Alma Court, K. & R. Carrie to C. Fan for $4,210,000

17 Farm Road, Byer Trust to H. & H. Hua for $1,350,000

456 Gabilan Street No. 6, Recht Family Trust to J. & S. Lee for $1,570,000

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Pack visits Nature Gallery

Courtesy of Kumar Natarajan

Webelos II Scouts from Los Altos Pack 78 recently completed their Earth Rocks! merit badge at Nature Gallery in downtown Los Altos. The Scouts enjoyed learning about rocks, minerals, crystals and the many fossils in the store. Nature Gallery owner Carol Garsten and Dav...

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Scouting News: Troop 37 recognizes Eagle Scouts

Los Altos Boy Scout Troop 37 honored two new Eagle Scouts at a Court of Honor ceremony Sept. 15. Los Altos City Councilwoman Anita Enander presented the Scouts with proclamations.

To receive the Eagle Rank, the highest distinction in Boy Scouts, a Scout m...

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Bert George Hickman, Jr.

October 6, 1924 – November 23, 2019 Dr. Bert G. Hickman, Stanford University Professor Emeritus of Economics, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away peacefully surrounded by family in Palo Alto on November 23, 2019. Dr. Hickman was born in Los Angeles, CA on October 6, 1924 to Bert Geor...

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Adele Van Straaten

Adele Van Straaten passed away November 3, 2019 in Cameron Park, CA with her three daughters by her side. She was 90 years of age. Born July 23, 1929 in San Francisco, CA Adele was orphaned as a baby. She was raised by her maternal Grandmother until age 8, when her grandmother passed. Adele then liv...

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Bayer performs 'Snow Queen' this weekend in MV

Bayer Ballet Company is set to perform “Snow Queen” 7 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St.

The Snow Queen’s spell captures a young boy, and his best friend sets out to save him.

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'Messiah Sing' concerts set for next week in Cupertino, Mtn. View

Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley celebrates the holiday season with its 53rd annual “Messiah Sing” concerts, scheduled Sunday and Monday in Cupertino and Mountain View, respectively.

The program includes “The Joys of Christmas,” Handel’s “Messiah,” Kirke Mechem’s “Seven Joys of Christmas” and Brian H...

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Hanukkah traditions can start with a doughnut

In the weeks leading up to Hanukkah, young families dust off an heirloom menorah or proudly display a newly minted, often misshapen, preschool edition of the Hanukkiah. Aside from crafting a candleholder or finding a new book about the old story of the Maccabees, most local Jewish families turn to f...

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Union Presbyterian hosts Christmas activities

Local residents who enjoy Christmas food, music and worship will find plenty of opportun...

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Seasonal splendor: Cauliflower crowns a holiday meal

As the low-carb lifestyle continues to grow in popularity, cauliflower has become the superstar vegetable of the culinary movement, morphing into cauliflower rice, pureed as a replacement for mashed pot...

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Up with the roosters: Pre-dawn Masses celebrate Advent

It’s 5:30 a.m. Most people are home asleep or brewing coffee or perhaps starting their commute. Others are in church.

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