East Palo Alto News

The early afternoon of May 5 started out as a special grandmother-and-granddaughter day for 6-year-old "Ashley" and her grandmother, "Susana." The elder woman and her grandchild had planned an outing to Menlo Park for Chinese food and playing at Burgess Park.

The first in a series of such actions nationwide, advocates for immigrant rights in Mountain View made their point this month by going without food and speaking to church congregations up and down the Peninsula.

To an already impressive list of honors, Gabriel Garcia can now add one more: He is the 2013 recipient of the Dr.

A young man walking to his car was shot Friday afternoon in East Palo Alto, according to police.

Marlene Castro knew the tall blond woman only as Laurene, her mentor. They met every few weeks in a rough Silicon Valley neighborhood the year that Castro was applying to college, and they emailed often, bonding over conversations about Castro's difficult childhood.

On Saturday, May 18, the second international " Fascination of Plants Day " will take place under the umbrella of the European Plant Science Organization .

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.

It has been 25 years since voters approved funding to replace the outdated interchange where Willow Road meets U.S. 101 in Menlo Park, but on May 7, Menlo Park City Council members tried to finally nudge the project closer to reality by giving a nod to one of the design options suggested by the multi-agency group currently working on the ... (more)

Teens from an East Palo Alto youth action group wait to start the May 1 rally in Mountain View.

Had public comment been darts, Sequoia Union High School District Superintendent James Lianides would have had puncture wounds aplenty after more than two hours on the stage of the Performing Arts Center at Menlo-Atherton High School on Monday .

Facing projections of a 22 percent rise in overall enrollment in local public high schools over the next eight years, officials from the Sequoia Union High School District want to hear from district parents in community meetings this month about where to put the students, and whether and how to redraw boundary maps that connect schools to ... (more)

This is an idiom which I probably picked up during my Navy days in the fifties. Aside from it's male chauvinist interpretation, it has applicability to many things in life.

An administrator from a Sacramento-area school district has been named the finalist to replace the retiring superintendent of East Palo Alto's Ravenswood City School District.

A man who faces homicide charges for the shooting deaths of two men had a date set for the start of his jury trial.

A weeks-long investigation culminated in the arrest of a Menlo Park man Tuesday for allegedly selling cocaine, Menlo Park police announced.

About 375 Palo Alto residents -- including more than 100 children in local public schools -- would be displaced by the closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park on El Camino Real in Barron Park, the Board of Education was told Tuesday.

Reporters at the Center for Investigative Reporting looked at five years of accident reports from five Bay Area counties, including San Mateo, to learn what official consequences befall motorists who kill pedestrians .

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

Menlo Park landed on a list no one wants to be on, according to a consultant hired to review the police department's operations.

Embezzlement Mountain View resident Ricardo Gonzalez Torres, 18, has been arrested and booked into jail for felony embezzlement under CA Penal Code section 503 on May 3. According to PAPD Officer Marco Estrada, Torres worked at the Macys in the Stanford Shopping Center and between March 25 and April 28 made four raudulent returns on items that he ... (more)