Los Altos High continues its dominance on the track and on the baseball diamond
Los Altos High’s track and field season ratchets up a notch next week when the undefeated Eagles host the SCVAL De Anza Division championships.
“The team has worked hard all season, and we are very excited for the upcoming weeks of competition,” co-head coach Dave Barth said.
Pastor's Perspective: Faith is built on a one-time event – the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Christians don’t base their faith in Jesus on the story of creation in the Bible. Good Christians disagree about where on the scale of literal to allegorical the first few chapters of the Bible are exactly, so it is clear that our faith is not based on that. Our faith isn’t based on the correct version of the Bible, though we talk about that a fair bit, too. Our faith is not based on which denomination, which pastor is the correct pastor, which view of the Revelation of John is precisely correct...
Other Voices: Los Altos stormwater drainage initiative worth the extra money
A proposed city of Los Altos stormwater drainage fee, subject of a city council public hearing Tuesday, will average approximately $7 per month, or $88 per year per parcel.
Award-winning musicians perform at Los Altos church
Grammy Award-winning guitarist Mark Hanson and national award-winning vocalist Greta Pedersen are scheduled to return to Los Altos for a concert with Bay Area fingerstyle guitarists Teja Gerken and Doug Young 2-4 p.m. May 5 at Foothills Congregational Church, 461 Orange Ave., Los Altos.
Hanson and Pedersen’s concerts are a mix of jazz, Americana, originals and pop. Gerken and Young draw from their individual catalogs of original compositions, Celtic tunes, arrangements of jazz standards and the...
Pedestrian hit MV in Saturday collision identified
Updated: Apr. 16, 9 a.m.
A Mountain View woman di...
Mountain View community rallies around beekeeper who lost hives
Beekeeping, apiarist Pepe Coria will tell you, is ...
Goat your back: LAH yoga classes boast practice with a 'baaa-mazing' twist
Los Altos resident in custody following felony vandalism, battery arrest Friday
A 26-year-old Los Altos resident is in custody aft...
Foothill college radio station plays more than 100 straight hours of vinyl
Jury finds Los Altos resident guilty in 2016 motorcycle shop murder
After nearly two days of deliberation, a jury on T...
News
Los Altos resident in custody following felony vandalism, battery arrest Friday
5 DAYS AGO | Melissa Hartman
A 26-year-old Los Altos resident is in custody after being arrested in Cupertino early Friday (April 12) morning for allegedly assaulting the driver o...
Schools
Foothill college radio station plays more than 100 straight hours of vinyl
6 DAYS AGO | Zoe Morgan - Staff Writer/zoem@latc.com
Whe...
Community
Save the Date - Week of April 17
6 DAYS AGO | Los Altos Town Crier Staff
May 10
Mother’s Day Wine Stroll, 6-9 p.m. in downtown Los Altos. Information: downtownlosaltos.org.
May 18
Kiwanis Club of Los Altos’ 72nd annual P...
Sports
Speedy Spartans are on the run
6 DAYS AGO | Pete Borello - Staff Writer/peteb@latc.com
Mountain View High’s Gabe Harris races home in a recent game against Homestead.
The Mountain View High baseball team ...
Comment
Letters to the Editor - Week of April 17
6 DAYS AGO | Los Altos Town Crier Staff
Bullis Charter School: Why no outrage?
Outrage abounds. Many are asking why the Los Altos School District camp would negotiate a deal that seemingly ...
Special Sections
Could stretching actually be making your sciatica worse?
6 DAYS AGO | Kim Gladfelter
People who suffer from sciatica are often told to stretch their hamstrings or their piriformis to relieve the tightness and get rid of pain. But certa...
Business
Transactions for the week of April 17
6 DAYS AGO | Los Altos Town Crier Staff
Los Altos
1436 Brookmill Road, Federici Trust to S. & C. Kim for $2,840,000
1161 Lammy Place, Wilson-Chang Trust to Marshall Trust for $3,500,00...
People
Emily Parcel Martin
-1 DAYS AGO | Mary Watanabe
Los Altos-area resident Emily Parcel Martin passed away at age 94 on Wednesday, April 3rd. She passed peacefully with her family present. Born i...
Magazine
Creating the good: Edo Rosenberg: Sculpting tension, harmony and life
27 DAYS AGO | Angie Wang - Town Crier Editorial Intern
News
Los Altos resident in custody following felony vandalism, battery arrest Friday
A 26-year-old Los Altos resident is in custody after being arrested in Cupertino early Friday (April 12) morning for allegedly assaulting the driver of a street sweeper, whose truck window shattered after an argument ensued, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.
Residents warn council multistory buildings will be the end of Los Altos as they know it
City staff in December denied Ted and Jerry Sorensen’s proposal for a five-story, multiuse complex, above, at their 40 Main St. property in downtown Los Altos. The brothers appealed the decision, which the Los Altos City Council uphel...
Schools
Foothill college radio station plays more than 100 straight hours of vinyl
When Jennifer Waits first heard about Vinylthon, an annual event that challenges college radio stations nationwide to play only vinyl records, she though...
LASD parents speak out against BCS deal
A few dozen parents and students gather outside Gardner Bullis School Friday to protest moving Egan Junior High School to the 10th site in Mountain View.
Although weeks have passed since the Los Altos School District and Bullis Charter School reached a tentative agr...
Community
Save the Date - Week of April 17
May 10
Mother’s Day Wine Stroll, 6-9 p.m. in downtown Los Altos. Information: downtownlosaltos.org.
May 18
Kiwanis Club of Los Altos’ 72nd annual Pet Parade, 10 a.m. in downtown Los Altos. Information: losaltoskiwanis.org.
Not letting go of his 'egg-o'
A young participant in last year’s spring egg hunt at Hillview Soccer Field snags a big catch. This year’s city of Los Altos-sponsored event is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday on the field, 97 Hillview Ave. Activities will include games, singing, dancing and the egg hun...
Sports
Speedy Spartans are on the run
Mountain View High’s Gabe Harris races home in a recent game against Homestead.
The Mountain View High baseball team isn’t running away with the SCVAL De Anza Division – rival Los Altos is well on its way to doing that – but the Spartans certainly are running.
Mount...
Los Altos High continues its dominance on the track and on the baseball diamond
Los Altos High’s track and field season ratchets up a notch next week when the undefeated Eagles host the SCVAL De Anza Division championships.
“The team has worked hard all season, and we ar...
Comment
Letters to the Editor - Week of April 17
Bullis Charter School: Why no outrage?
Outrage abounds. Many are asking why the Los Altos School District camp would negotiate a deal that seemingly surrenders a “jewel” to Bullis Charter School when the charter school apparently gives up nothing.
Let me tell you why I am celebrating. This deal is...
Other Voices: Los Altos stormwater drainage initiative worth the extra money
A proposed city of Los Altos stormwater drainage fee, subject of a city council public hearing Tuesday, will average approximately $7 per month, or $88 per year per parcel.
Special Sections
Could stretching actually be making your sciatica worse?
People who suffer from sciatica are often told to stretch their hamstrings or their piriformis to relieve the tightness and get rid of pain. But certain sciatica stretches not only don’t work, they also can be quite harmful.
A client of mine, Susan, 47, had been suffering from what she believed to ...
Breathe easy: ECH among first to offer lung procedure with no incisions
Dr. Ganesh Krishna, medical director of El Camino Hospital’s Interventional Pulmonology Program, holds the newly approved Zephyr valve.
With two more trials in the pipeline, El Camino Hospital’s Dr. Ganesh Krishna and his team are making history as the fir...
Business
Transactions for the week of April 17
Los Altos
1436 Brookmill Road, Federici Trust to S. & C. Kim for $2,840,000
1161 Lammy Place, Wilson-Chang Trust to Marshall Trust for $3,500,000
Reflecting on equal access during Fair Housing Month
April is National Fair Housing Month, and housing advocates aim to remind Americans that all persons have equal access to housing and that fair housing is not an option but the law.
The Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, protects people from discrimination based on race, ...
People
Emily Parcel Martin
Los Altos-area resident Emily Parcel Martin passed away at age 94 on Wednesday, April 3rd. She passed peacefully with her family present. Born in 1924, to Columbus and Bernice in Colorado, Emily grew up in the Denver area and completed her B.A. in Social Work at the University of Denver. She m...
Mark Dalrymple
1945-2019 Mark Dalrymple showed courage, grace, and patience during his long struggle with cancer that ended March 22nd. He was born in the Seattle area to parents George and Persis and grew up there and in Humboldt County, CA. Mark attended Stanford University where he earned degrees in Biology and...
Obituaries
Emily Parcel Martin
Los Altos-area resident Emily Parcel Martin passed away at age 94 on Wednesday, April 3rd. She passed peacefully with her family present. Born in 1924, to Columbus and Bernice in Colorado, Emily grew up in the Denver area and completed her B.A. in Social Work at the University of Denver. She m...
Mark Dalrymple
1945-2019 Mark Dalrymple showed courage, grace, and patience during his long struggle with cancer that ended March 22nd. He was born in the Seattle area to parents George and Persis and grew up there and in Humboldt County, CA. Mark attended Stanford University where he earned degrees in Biology and...
Stepping Out
Young actor reaches milestone with 50th PYT performance
Los Altos resident Braden Koch’s 10 years with Peninsula Youth Theatre includes performing “The Cat in the Hat.”
Local actor Braden Koch is preparing for his 50th and final performance with Peninsula Youth Theatre.
The Los Altos High ...
Felder's 'Paris Love Story' continues run in Mtn. View
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s world premiere of “Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story,” written and performed by piano virtuoso Hershey Felder and directed by Trevor Hay, is set to run through May 5 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St.
“Paris” explores the life an...
Spiritual Life
Pastor's Perspective: Faith is built on a one-time event – the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Christians don’t base their faith in Jesus on the story of creation in the Bible. Good Christians disagree about where on the scale of literal to allegorical the first few chapters of the Bible are exactly, so it is clear that our faith is not based on that. Our faith isn’t based on the correct vers...
Foothills Congregational Church hosts Zen book signing May 4
Foothills Congregational Church is scheduled to host a book signing with authors Les Kaye and Teresa Bouza 5-6:30 p.m. May 4 in the church’s Parish Hall, 461 Orange Ave., Los Altos.
Kaye and Bouza are co-authors of “A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley” (Pa...
Magazine
Creating the good: Edo Rosenberg: Sculpting tension, harmony and life
Three things artist and Los Altos resident Edo Rosenberg said he would bring to a desert island: water, fishing gear and companionship. ...
Hidden jewel: Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos provides a sanctuary for the soul
Although the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos has been a place of worship, healing and discovery for 94 years, it remains a mystery to many.
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