Belmont News

Fearing they could face the same legal fight waged in San Carlos over a Sarah Palin billboard, Belmont officials are planning an emergency moratorium on all new billboards in the city.

The image of the state's bullet train ripping apart Peninsula communities in the next decade has once again spurred local leaders into action, this time with a planning process usually applied to freeway construction.

The lights are now back on for all but about 230 customers. 9:11 a.m.: Belmont Avenue at Backer Avenue is blocked in both directions this morning after a vehicle slammed into utility poles and overturned.

William Scott Simon, 42, of Belmont took one look at the officers after the January incident and told them, "I have a lot of balls to be walking in here." He was promptly arrested.

William Simon, 42, has been in custody since Jan. 11 when he was arrested in a San Mateo parking lot after getting out of his car and stumbling past two California Highway Patrol officers, said Assistant District Attorney Karen Guidotti.

Authorities on Thursday are asking for the public's help in finding a 21-year-old Southern California man with a mental disability who failed to return to a Belmont motel he was staying at with his parents.

Kindergartners at Cipriani Elementary School took time out from the playground and, as a group, began counting in Mandarin.

With the Nov. 3 election nearing, candidates running for City Council seats across San Mateo County are starting to separate themselves in the race for donations.

The California High Speed Rail Authority's plan to run its trains up the Peninsula along the Caltrain corridor has not exactly been met with great enthusiasm.

Miguel Ongpin got into theater to meet girls. His high school, Junipero Serra in San Mateo, was an all-boys Catholic school, but the campus did co-productions each year with the all-girl campuses at Notre Dame High in Belmont and Mercy High in Burlingame.

Freshman students from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont set up a carnival for the children of migrant farmworkers in the Soledad area last weekend.

South Bay Recycling will operate the new Shoreway Environmental Center - the recycling facility in San Carlos - after two-thirds of the South Bayside Waste Management Authority agreed to the recommendation.

For voters, the choice in the City Council election Nov. 3 is simple: Stick with the status quo, or hand a seat to a newcomer.

The Belmont Public Works Department is providing a limited supply of filled sandbags for residents.

There's more to the college experience than fascinating lectures, frat parties and pricey textbooks.

The Twin Pines Senior & Community Center and the Senior Round Table in Belmont will hold its 2009 Community Resource Faire Oct.

Attention: Are you a Belmont planning commissioner? Do you enjoy talking down to the rubes who dare plod into your hallowed chamber, seeking to build a deck on which to sit and watch the rest of their pathetic lives expire? If you answered yes to both those questions, you may not want to vote for City Councilman Warren Lieberman or challenger Mike ...

Police have arrested a 19-year-old man they say shot another man with a shotgun Tuesday night on a street corner in Redwood City.

South Bay Recycling, a California-based firm, has received approval needed from the South Bayside Waste Management Authority's member agencies on its operations agreement as the future operator of the SBWMA's Shoreway Environmental Center.

Candidates gunning for three City Council seats are at odds over how much money taxpayers should pump into the city's downtown and local parks programs.