Menlo Park News

A memorial service will be held Saturday, June 29, for Robert W. F. Jones, who died June 7 at his home in Menlo Park from complications associated with leukemia.

A 58-year-old Palo Alto bicyclist was thrown 8 to 10 feet in the air and was injured in a collision with a vehicle on Alpine Road near Interstate 280 on Sunday morning, June 9, according to the California Highway Patrol and the Woodside Fire Protection District.

A three-alarm fire damaged a pool house, a storage shed, a carport-like shed and about 25 percent of a house in the 100 block of Almendral Avenue in Atherton on June 13, a firefighter said.

John Hill watched with eager anticipation as controllers in Menlo Park ramped up the power systems driving SLAC's X-ray laser in an attempt to achieve the record high energies needed to make his experiment a runaway success.

If you were at last weekend's Friends' book sale, I hope you found some interesting volumes.

The city of Menlo Park raided its sofa and found some pocket change, bumping up its projected 2013-14 fiscal year budget by approximately $400,000.

When last we heard from the Menlo Park council on the proposed eight-acre Stanford-Arrillaga project, a subcommittee had been appointed on April 16 in the hopes of guiding concerned residents and Stanford to a detente.

Hong Kong Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Gregory So spoke in Menlo Park to an audience of Silicon Valley business leaders.

On a newly built campus, in a spacious new auditorium, at the start of a school year, a dynamic new principal took the microphone.

The City of Menlo Park's Housing Element Steering Committee has proposed to convert the two acres of wooded open space on the west end of Sharon Park to 60 high-density housing units.

Patience is paying off for Michael Tevis, president of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Intrinsic Ventures.

Several juveniles in a Lexus SUV threw a bottle at the victim as they drove by at the intersection of Middle Avenue and San Mateo Drive in Menlo Park before 12:14 p.m. Monday, June 3. Disturbance.

Gywn Murray can't remember a time when she didn't have animals, and not just the usual cats and dogs.

Instagram is gearing up to take on Vine by offering a new video sharing service, according to a source familiar with the plans.

Kathleen Downing, who works at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club in Menlo Park, was honored as one of San Francisco State University's top graduates at graduation ceremonies on May 25. Ms.

I just walked down University Drive tonight around 10:25 p.m. where at the intersection of University Drive and Middle Avenue, an SUV stopped to let me cross the intersection .

"I am pleased to announce that eight of my good friends and I have started a photography blog: f8 don't wait .

Sandie Timm of Menlo Park sent us this photo of Vice President Joe Biden with her son Ben, 7, at the Harvest furniture store at 639 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park on Saturday, June 15. Mr. Biden was in San Francisco Friday night for a fundraiser and then on the Peninsula for his niece's graduation from Stanford.

Sandie Timm of Menlo Park sent us this photo of Vice President Joe Biden with her son Ben, 7, at the Harvest furniture store at 639 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park on Saturday, June 15. Mr. Biden was in San Francisco Friday night for a fundraiser and then on the Peninsula for his niece's graduation from Stanford.

Editor's note: Menlo Park resident Madeline Jhawar is the owner of Italy Beyond the Obvious travel consultancy.