The Los Altos Public Arts Commission will have to find another location for a metallic outdoor sculpture commissioners had originally slated for installation in front of an apricot orchard.
Los Altos City Councilmembers overruled the arts commission at their July 11 meeting by denying placement of the space-age-themed “Reverse Prometheus” at the entrance of a walking path and orchard fronting San Antonio Road, between city hall and the main library.
Los Altos city officials Saturday rolled out their Downtown Green – a temporary park space located on Third Street between Main and State streets.
The stretch of streetscape is covered in green synthetic turf and lined with colorful furniture. The pop-up park, now in its fourth iteration, is intended to provide a temporary social gathering space, special-event venue and outdoor dining opportunity during July and August.
Don’t be fooled by the winter season’s bounty of precipitation. Fire season is underway, and wildfire conditions are more foreboding than in years past, officials warn.
“The rain is fantastic, but what that rain has done is it’s allowed everything to grow and a lot of it to grow,” said Pam Temmermand, fire prevention specialist with CAL FIRE.
When veterans break the law in the U.S., they enter a court system that may not understand some of their specialized problems – or the resources that exist, if activated, to support them.
Longtime Los Altos resident Duncan MacVicar witnessed the situation up close 10 years ago, in a case that became a calling.
A single hour on a single afternoon at Foothills Park last week hosted a flock of birdwatchers, hikers, picnickers, fishermen, a film crew and children practicing swordplay with sticks. Despite the activity, the scene remained serene, the twittering of songbirds and waterfowl unmuted in an oasis far removed from Silicon Valley’s relentless hum.
Located on Page Mill Road between Interstate 280 and Skyline Boulevard, Foothills Park has long proved a tantalizing beauty to Los Altos Hills; the 1,400-acre site is owned by the city of Palo Alto, whose residents have exclusive access to the trails, vistas and placid Boronda Lake within. Some nonresidents gain access on weekdays when the park’s guard booth is unmanned, but Los Altos Hills Mayor Gary Waldeck recently renewed efforts for official access.
Toshi Komatsu knows the exact date of the Kepler Mission launch and is unlikely to ever forget it. March 6, 2009, came just days after the birth of his first son, and Komatsu was lulling the infant to sleep while sneaking peeks at his computer to watch the Delta II rocket soar into the great beyond.
“It’s a mission that’s very near and dear to my heart, certainly,” said Komatsu, director of De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium.
