Los Altos resident swerves onto sidewalk, hits stop sign during school let out Friday
No injuries were reported after a Los Altos resident “inadvertently accelerated” near the intersection of Covington Road and Miramonte Avenue Friday afternoon (Oct. 18) and h...
MV girls golf team closes in on berth in section playoffs
The Mountain View High girls golf team capped its first season in the SCVAL De Anza Division with home victories over Saratoga and Gunn last week to finish third at 6-4 – good enough to qualify for this week’s league tournament.
The Spartans beat Saratoga 207-229 behind Katelyn Lee’s 38 and topped Gunn 210-227, led by Reeya Vasishta’s 37, at Shoreline Golf Links.
LAYT opens 'Shop' Friday night at Bus Barn Theater
Los Altos Youth Theatre’s fall musical “Little Shop of Horrors” is scheduled to open Friday and run through Nov. 3 at Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave.
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award, “Horrors” satirizes science-fiction B movies and musical comedy itself.
LAUMC hosts annual Harvest Craft Faire
Los Altos United Methodist Church has scheduled its 40th annual Harvest Craft Faire 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the church, 655 Magdalena Ave.
The event will feature a large selection of handcrafted items made by more than 40 artisans, from glass and stuffed pumpkins to pilgrims, Santas, wooden bowls, cutting boards and kitchen items.
Los Altos High boys water polo team dominates De Anza Division
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Facebook puts $25 million into teacher housing project
Finding comfort in community: Roman family rises from ashes of house that built them
According to his 2017 obituary in the Town Crier, ...
LGBTQ+ Listening Forum reaches few Los Altos Hills ears last week
Like the sessions before it, the Los Altos Hills e...
'Sunday in the Street' fundraiser replaces Follies
Vocalis...
Los Altos History Museum offers two orchard-related activities Saturday
The Los Altos History Museum expands its programmi...
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Los Altos Planning Commission votes to recommend Loyola Corners development
9 HOURS AGO | Melissa Hartman - Staff Writer/melissah@latc.com
The Los Altos Planning Commission voted Oct. 17 to endorse developer Gregg Bunker’s mixed-use project in Loyola Corners and approved all but one of ci...
Schools
LASD delays purchase of 10th school site three weeks
-1 DAYS AGO | Zoe Morgan
The Los ...
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Los Altos 7-year-old wins award after award
9 HOURS AGO | Kaitlyn Huang - Town Crier Editorial Intern
Second-grader Ellary Day Szyndlar has won awards at regional and national dance competitions.
For many students, ...
Sports
All is not lost for Lancers
9 HOURS AGO | Pete Borello - Staff Writer/peteb@latc.com
St. Francis High’s Camilo Arquette slips a tackle on a run Friday night against Serra. He led the Lancers in rushi...
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Letters to the Editor – Week of Oct. 23
9 HOURS AGO | Los Altos Town Crier Staff
Kudos from former council members
As former Los Altos City Council members who had a role in enhancing the civic center during our tenures dating fro...
Special Sections
After decades of preparation, El Camino Hospital's state-of-the-art Scrivner Center for Mental Health and Addiction Services premieres
9 HOURS AGO | Melissa Hartman - Staff Writer/melissah@latc.com
Landscaping begins at El Camino Hospital’s new Taube Pavilion Oct. 17. The 56,000-square-foot facility, which will house ...
Business
A new kind of social community platform
-1 DAYS AGO | Jenny Huang
People
Jackson Eaves
15 HOURS AGO | Los Altos Town Crier Report
Jackson Eaves, Born in July 1925 in San Francisco, died at 94 years of age on 12 October 2019. His parents were Dr James Eaves and Marion Small Eaves ...
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Fall events
28 DAYS AGO | Keshav Singh – Town Crier Intern
News
Los Altos Planning Commission votes to recommend Loyola Corners development
The Los Altos Planning Commission voted Oct. 17 to endorse developer Gregg Bunker’s mixed-use project in Loyola Corners and approved all but one of city staff’s proposed design review code amendments.
Los Altos Hills officials consider infrastructure updates
Across agenda items, from the undergrounding of utilities to fiber-optic internet, “bringing Los Altos Hills into the 21st century” emerged as the reoccurring theme of Thursday’s city council meeting.
Stanley Mok had the honor of introducing the topic during his delivery of the Finance and Investme...
Schools
LASD delays purchase of 10th school site three weeks
The Los Altos School District delayed its purchase of a 10th school site in Mountain View by three weeks, citing an upcoming decision by the Mountain View Cit...
LASD adds multilingual BCS facilities meeting
The Los Altos School ...
Community
Los Altos 7-year-old wins award after award
Second-grader Ellary Day Szyndlar has won awards at regional and national dance competitions.
For many students, summer is a relaxing, rejuvenating period after a hard year’s work – but not for 7-year-old Ellary Day Szyndlar.
Throughout the summer, the Los Altos...
'Sunday in the Street' fundraiser replaces Follies
Vocalists Jocelyn Pickett, left, and Charles Morgan are slated to perform at this weekend’s “Sunday in the Street,” a fundraiser for the Los Altos Stage Company that replaces the annual Follies.
A fundraiser for Los Altos Stage Company, “Sunday in ...
Sports
All is not lost for Lancers
St. Francis High’s Camilo Arquette slips a tackle on a run Friday night against Serra. He led the Lancers in rushing (126 yards).
With a long string of success that includes making the NorCal finals last season and winning a state title in 2017, the St. Francis Hig...
Los Altos High boys water polo team dominates De Anza Division
Alex Brett takes a shot for Los Altos High in a recent game. He scored seven goals in Thursday’s win over Mountain View.
For the second time in three years, the Los Altos High boys water polo team is blowing the rest of the league out of the wate...
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Letters to the Editor – Week of Oct. 23
Kudos from former council members
As former Los Altos City Council members who had a role in enhancing the civic center during our tenures dating from 1976, when the old Hillview School site was purchased, we are perhaps more delighted than most to witness the groundbreaking of the new community ce...
Letter to the Editor: Keep Egan in place
Keep Egan Jr. High where it is
I appreciate the Town Crier’s analysis of the Los Altos School District’s latest public outreach charrette at Egan Junior High School to find long-term facilities for Bullis Charter School (“Second BCS facilities meeting again draws large, engaged cr...
Special Sections
After decades of preparation, El Camino Hospital's state-of-the-art Scrivner Center for Mental Health and Addiction Services premieres
Landscaping begins at El Camino Hospital’s new Taube Pavilion Oct. 17. The 56,000-square-foot facility, which will house the hospital’s Scrivner Center for Mental Health and Addiction Services, will be open to the public Saturday afternoon.
Michael Fitzgerald’s patien...
Is it normal for knees to hurt during squats?
People experiencing knee pain when they squat can work with a specialist to identify what’s going wrong, whether it’s an existing injury, an insufficient warm-up or improper form.
The short answer to the question of whether it’s normal for the knees to hurt whi...
Business
A new kind of social community platform
Some of us grew up watching “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” That was the good old times, when we knew...
United Way seeks tax prep volunteers
United Way Bay Area’s Earn It! Keep It! Save It! program seeks volunteer tax preparers, interpreters and greeters to help staff Volunteer Income Tax Assistance sites throughout the Bay Area during the 2020 tax season.
No prior experience with tax preparation is required, and all training is provide...
People
Jackson Eaves
Jackson Eaves, Born in July 1925 in San Francisco, died at 94 years of age on 12 October 2019. His parents were Dr James Eaves and Marion Small Eaves of Piedmont, Calif. Preceding him in death were his parents and his sisters, Marion Hinman and Sally Lewis, and his son, Bradley. Jackson graduated fr...
Raymond Johns Davis Egan
On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, Raymond Johns Davis Egan, loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away at age 88. Ray was born on August 22, 1931 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Florence Carter and Raymond Davis. As a boy in Hawaii, he observed the bombing of Pearl Harbor from a hi...
Obituaries
Jackson Eaves
Jackson Eaves, Born in July 1925 in San Francisco, died at 94 years of age on 12 October 2019. His parents were Dr James Eaves and Marion Small Eaves of Piedmont, Calif. Preceding him in death were his parents and his sisters, Marion Hinman and Sally Lewis, and his son, Bradley. Jackson graduated fr...
Raymond Johns Davis Egan
On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, Raymond Johns Davis Egan, loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away at age 88. Ray was born on August 22, 1931 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Florence Carter and Raymond Davis. As a boy in Hawaii, he observed the bombing of Pearl Harbor from a hi...
Stepping Out
'Spamalot' opens Friday in Woodside
Woodside Community Theatre stages Monty Python’s “Spamalot,” with performances slated Friday through Nov. 3 in the Performing Arts Center at Woodside High School, 199 Churchill Ave.
Adapted from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Spamalot” is a parody of the Arthurian legend but also...
Pascual Trio plays at CSMA Saturday night
Juanito Pascual leads a trio set to perform a free concert Saturday in Mountain View.
The Community School of Music and Arts presents the flamenco music of the Juanito Pascual Trio in a free concert slated 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Tateuchi Hall at CSMA, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountai...
Spiritual Life
Crèche display features 250 nativities
A crèche exhibition is scheduled at the Palo Alto LDS church.
The Palo Alto Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ 32nd annual Christmas crèche exhibition is scheduled for display noon to 9 p.m. Dec. 7-11 at 3865 Middlefield Road.
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My spiritual healing journey
This month, I celebrate my “Jesus Birthday,” 35 years of being born again.
I was raised by my parents in the Catholic Church, where I received my spiritual foundation, believing in the Trinity – God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Fall events
Fall is full of local events – from plays to concerts. A rundown of what’s happening when and where follows.&...
Fitness with friends: Finding community at the local gym
When Spa of Los Altos (formerly Lydia Young’s Health Spa) closed nearly a decade ago to make way for the Packard Foundation’s new digs, members scattered. Many had belonge...
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