Take that, Atherton.
A new survey of U.S. Census data ranks Los Altos Hills as the “richest” town in California, making it also the most affluent town in the country.
After a week of wacky weather, the first in a series of family events officially inaugurated a summer season of outdoor movie nights, street parties and free concerts.
The Mountain View Public Library’s “Sing a Summer Song” began Tuesday with a 10 a.m. performance by children’s musician Charlie Hope, the first in a nine-week series for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and music-loving companions of all ages. The Park Stage adjacent to the library, which hosts the Tuesday-morning performances, transforms into a proscenium on Friday nights for 6:30 p.m. Peninsula Youth Theatre performances. The plays, performed by local youth, are also free and welcoming of picnics and blankets. The playbill this year ranges from classic fairy tales to revisionist children’s fantasies, beginning with “The King Who Loved His Lollipops” June 15.
Recent temperature fluctuations notwithstanding, warm weather has returned to the Bay Area, and with it comes the annual onslaught of disease carriers like mosquitoes and ticks, county officials warned last week.
Locally, May and June are considered the start of the active West Nile virus season, and Lyme disease peaks in ticks in July, according to Russell Parman, Santa Clara County Vector Control District assistant manager.
Over the years, Los Altos Hills Town Hall storage facilities have accumulated an impressive array of historical miscellanea: scrapbooks filled with yellowed newspaper clippings, assorted cutlery and dishes – even a glass box containing a mannequin dressed as 18th-century Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. While many of the items originated from residents who donated them for posterity, deciphering the origins of a family photo album found in a town hall closet earlier this month has left City Clerk Deborah Padovan stumped.
“There must have been some significance in their mind why they donated it,” she said. “So I wasn’t going to throw it away. You don’t throw stuff like this away.”
Fred and JoAnn Pfost’s Los Altos swimming pool has attracted ducks for decades, but it wasn’t until earlier this month that the couple discovered their first duckling residents – nine in total plus their mallard mother. The recent arrival of new Pfost family member Katy, a 16-week-old Boston terrier, made relocating the pool party a priority.
“Our puppy would just think they were wind-up toys,” JoAnn Pfost said.
Nearly five months have passed since canine influenza virus (CIV) arrived in Santa Clara County and commenced a steady march through Silicon Valley, spreading north up the Peninsula and south toward Monterey County.
The highly contagious nature of the respiratory disease has influenced how animal care businesses operate; some local boarding and day care facilities no longer accept dogs that haven’t been vaccinated.
