Atherton News

The Rotary Club of Menlo Park held its 27th annual Scholastic Achievement Awards Ceremony on last night at Menlo-Atherton High School, giving out scholarships totalling $87,000 to 24 students.. The evening featured live music from the Menlo-Atherton Jazz Band and the motivational speaker Michael Pritchard.

Geoff Aus, longtime Menlo Park Fire Protection District fire marshal, is changing employers, but not job titles.

With one council member calling the change "outrageous," the Atherton City Council on May 15 approved a compensation increase, that by some calculations is a decrease, for City Manager George Rodericks.

The APOA claims the commonly held notion that Atherton officers have less dangerous jobs than other cops in the bay area is a myth.

The Peninsula Volunteers organization is putting on its first Decorator Show House in 40 years and the first show house locally in almost 10 years.

With one council member calling the change "outrageous," the Atherton City Council last night approved a compensation increase, that by some calculations is a decrease, for City Manager George Rodericks.

From the east to the west, public agencies in Menlo Park today participated in the Countywide Disaster Exercise known as the Golden Guardian Exercise 2013 in mock simulations of emergency response activities following a catastrophic earthquake, making the city a ground zero of preparedness training.

This information is from the Menlo Park and Atherton police departments and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.

Atherton Police and the McKay family are searching for Thomas Noel McKay, 82, who went missing on Friday, May 10.

An 82-year-old Atherton man left his home Thursday and hasn't been seen by his family since, police said Tuesday.

A session to allow the public to comment on upcoming contract talks between the town and the police union, and potential changes in the city manager's contract, are on the agenda when the Atherton City Council meets on Wednesday, May 15.

The Democratic National Committee will not reimburse Atherton for President Obama's April visit to the town , according to a memo to the City Manager George Rodericks that deflects responsibility to the U.S. Secret Service.

In a public forum at 7 p.m. Monday, May 13, in the Performing Arts Center at Menlo-Atherton High School, officials from the Sequoia Union High School District will be seeking community input on possibly redrawing boundary maps that connect schools to neighborhoods.

Programs designed to help steer kids away from drugs, such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education , can be only as effective as the people who work face to face with the kids.

Robert Redford's The Company You Keep will continue to show at the Guild Theater in Menlo Park this weekend.

Happy Foodie Friday ! Every week we visit a chef in the Menlo Park-Atherton community and ask him or her what they're cooking for dinner.

The class is called Implementation. It's the capstone of pursuing a degree in Product Design at Stanford, an interdisciplinary program that includes mechanical engineering and psychology as well as design.

This information is from the Menlo Park and Atherton police departments and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.

Items selected are from the daily police logs of the cities listed below. Times shown are when the incidents were reported to the police.

On Saturday, May 11, people from across the country - including Menlo Park and Atherton - will partner with their postal carriers to help "Stamp Out Hunger." Now in its 21st year, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive is the largest single-day effort to combat hunger in America and the largest single-day food drive for food banks in the Bay Area.