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The Mountain View City Council selected Alison Hicks to serve as the city’s mayor Jan. 10, a role she will operate in for 2023. Elected to the city council in 2018 and re-elected to a second f…
Mentor Tutor Connection executive director Carol Olson has resigned as head of the nonprofit organization, with her departure set for mid-May.
State Street Market is set to undergo a bit of a makeover, with a new group of vendors planned for the downtown Los Altos food hall. The revamp will mean closing the market from mid-February t…
The array of ailments and injuries plaguing the Mountain View High girls basketball team this season hasn’t been limited to the players. An illness sidelined coach Xavier Cook for the last fiv…
Housing element offers step toward growth
The Los Altos City Council’s new year is not off to a great start. Although the council last week met its deadline to adopt a mandatory housing element update, the seemingly innocuous task of mayoral appointments to boards of regional agencies triggered a reminder of continued, strained coun…
The city of Los Altos Environmental Commission has created a new resource page designed to help residents replace old gas appliances with new, more efficient electric ones. It describes the type of gas appliances that can be replaced; the various advantages and potential disadvantages of ele…
The League of Women Voters supports a coordinated state-level approach to housing. This requires that individual jurisdictions credibly plan for their fair share of housing across all income levels so they can meet the economic and societal needs of current and future residents.
Before Perry Mason was on television, he was a fixture in the movies. Warner Bros. bought the rights to the Erle Stanley Gardner series in the 1930s and Mason made his first movie appearance i…