Portola Valley News

A tenacious Portola Valley rat, now deceased, shut down electrical service at The Sequoias retirement community on the morning of Monday, Nov.

In choosing to renew Portola Valley's two-part utility users tax for the fifth time, voters showed enthusiastic support for not raising the tax, strong support for the tax's open-space element, and significant support for raising the appropriations limit so the town could collect revenues to help pay the town's operational expenses.

The White House on Monday, Nov. 9, announced the nomination of Portola Valley resident Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe to the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

When Leslie Ballinger and her family started raising chickens in 1998, they were pretty much on their own.

Tickets are still available for a rhythm-and-blues dance under the stars in Portola Valley from 8 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Nov.

Piles of unwanted phone books littered throughout the Bay Area and the state could soon be reduced under legislation proposed Thursday by state Sen.

Last April, residents of Portola Valley and Woodside went out and collected samples to test for sudden oak death , and gave them to scientists from the University of California at Berkeley.

Lew Southern and Lee Boucher no doubt have many good stories to tell of mutual experiences and adventures stemming from their 40-year friendship, begun when they first met at a Menlo Park Newcomers gathering.

What a compelling reason not to vote for the parcel tax! "It's the economy studpid!" Brilliance resides in Atherton.

California's domestic violence program will be spared from elimination this year with Gov.

The Museum of American Heritage will present "Bill Lane remembers Sunset," an evening with Bill Lane of Portola Valley, former publisher of Sunset magazine, at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct.

A resolution to be considered by the Menlo Park City Council condemning a proposal to develop Cargill's salt flats is "totally inappropriate" and "shows a lack of vision," Redwood City council members say.

Both Woodside and Portola Valley will have one new member each on the respective town councils after the Nov.

This guest opinion was submitted by Ed Wells, a Portola Valley resident, the town's first treasurer, and a municipal finance consultant.

The Menlo Brass Quintet will play selections ranging from Albinoni to Irving Berlin during a concert from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct.

The day after the arrival of the worst October storm to hit the Bay Area in nearly 50 years, about 200 San Mateo County residents were still without power and authorities were tallying up the damage.

An exhibitor floor full of sales representatives smiling eagerly in their booths is the heart and soul of any trade show.

Portola Valley , posted by RHine@AlmanacNews.com, managing editor of The Almanac, 49 minutes ago RHine@AlmanacNews.com is a member of Almanac This letter from Jon Silver, former Portola Valley councilman, was published in the Oct.

Solar power has a bright future at Portola Valley schools, with a newly approved plan to install photovoltaic systems at the Corte Madera and Ormondale campuses.

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