Belmont News

The home sits on 0.45 sloping acres and includes a guest house, a spa and a wine cellar for 1,500 bottles.

A Tuskegee Airman and a former U.S. Navy Seal will be the guest speakers at Monday's annual Memorial Day observance at Golden Gate National Cemetery.

A After several weeks of cooperative effort between six San Mateo County law enforcement agencies, a suspect connected with a series of vehicle burglaries in Belmont has been arrested.

The Carlmont Lady Scots have reached the CCS Softball Finals. The softball dynamos will - comprised of talented athletes from San Carlos and Belmont - will take on a familiar foe, San Benito, on Saturday, May 26 at 12:30 p.m. for the Division I softball championship.

A Got a grad? What better way to honor them than by posting a photo of your favorite graduate on the pages of Belmont and San Carlos Patch ? It's that time of year to honor and celebrate the accomplishments of hundreds of graduates at various grade levels throughout Belmont and San Carlos who will be walking the stage and receiving diplomas.

A An alert employee of a local business helped Belmont police capture a suspect who had stolen a laptop from his office.

A private school's desire to build a new middle school in Belmont has some residents who live in the neighboring hills already cringing at the thought of more whistles, airhorns and the sounds of screaming children being amplified through the nearby canyons.

A Even if you haven't scuffled with your neighbor over placement of a fence, new landscaping or a cracked sidewalk, it's helpful to know where your legal property lines begin and end.

A With summer on the horizon, and a wide variety of classes offered for Belmont residents of all ages and interests, Patch will be highlighting some of the upcoming offerings sent to us by Belmont Parks & Recreation coordinator Andrea De Lara.

The Oversight Board will reconvene Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. to discuss the city's obligation payment schedule, fall-out from the dissolution of the fire JPA with Belmont.

When Dolly Goyal, the Belmont teen services librarian , asked for entries for the 2012 Teen Poetry Contest, she wasn't prepared for the overwhelming response.

A pair of East Palo Alto residents who pleaded no contest last month to felony chargers in connection with a string of robberies in San Mateo and Burlingame will be sentenced in June for their crimes.

CHP Sgt. Alan Pittman says it happened Friday night at around 5:30pm on Rawhide Road near the intersection of Highway 108.

A San Jose man was the driver who crashed into a group of motorcyclists on a Peninsula freeway while trying to record cellphone footage of them and then was pummelled by other bikers in apparent retaliation, authorities said.

A [Editor's Note: The following information was provided by the Belmont Police Department via NextDoor.com ] The Belmont Police Department is asking for your help in identifying a subject who was seen going door-to-door in the Hallmark neighborhood of Belmont.

Two motorcycle riders were injured Sunday morning when a Toyota Prius "veered into" them on Highway 101 near Belmont, according to reports .

With my cardboard, tin foil and safety pin, I headed up to the top of one of Belmont's hills with my assistant Nellie, and I was able to view the eclipse, which, as promised by the experts, was most visible at 6:33 p.m. In Half Moon Bay, Cameron's Campground, Inn and Restaurant hosted an afternoon of astronomy viewing.

A This week's Readers' Choice poll focuses on entertainment around the Peninsula, and in Belmont we decided to check out the live music scene.

Andrew Scheiner/Daily Journal Retiring Principal Cori McKenzie listens to library tech Patty Branscum read a story to students at Central Elementary School in Belmont Friday.

Police say a teenage driver was attacked by a group of motorcyclists after he knocked down two bikers on a Northern California freeway.