A group of elementary school children and their parents gathered around Komal Singh as she read aloud from her new children’s book at Linden Tree Books. Visiting Los Altos on her fall book tour, she shared several passages from “Ara the Star Engineer” before pulling out a virtual-reality headset for the kids to experience.
Bay Area shoe retailer Sole Desire closed its 315 Main St. shop in downtown Los Altos Dec. 16, and a customer service representative said she was “not exactly sure why.”
Myleah Pandit confirmed Dec. 20 that Sole Desire’s 22nd location had been permanently shuttered, but she could offer no further information.
32 Lyell Street, M. Case to Z. & J. Huang for $1,898,000
826 Hierra Court, Evers Williamson Trust to H. & K. Skucha for $2,510,000
Social Security is one of the few retirement pensions whose annual payments increase over time based on actual inflation. Few other private or public pensions provide this valuable benefit. Neither do annuities.
Moving Menlo Technologies Inc. from Santa Clara to downtown Los Altos has enabled CEO and founder Gary Prioste to shorten his commute and expand his company.
“I can’t say it’s centrally located for all of our employees – a lot of them are in the South Bay or Santa Cruz,” said the Menlo Park resident, who grew up in Los Altos. “But for a few of us living farther up north, this is a better location.”
With help from a $1 million donation from the Realtors Relief Foundation, the California Association of Realtors is awarding housing assistance grants to homeowners and renters affected by the Camp, Woolsey and Hill fires. Grants are distributed through the association’s Housing Affordability Fund and Disaster Relief Fund.
