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Jay Thorwaldson's Blog , posted by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, 1 hour ago Jay Thorwaldson is a member of Palo Alto Online In about eight years, the Palo Alto Adult School will be observing its 100th anniversary -- a century of promoting the notion that learning can be for a lifetime.

A Palo Alto-based independent school for children with dyslexia will hold an information night for prospective families Wednesday, May 29.

Everyone agrees that Palo Alto, a city with a graying population and sky-high property values, has a drought of housing for low-income seniors.

An associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University has been charged with felony parent abduction after taking her three children on what authorities contend was a one-way trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

Anyone who has ever wrestled with athlete's foot knows there is something about feet that fungi seem to like.

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday posted a big drop in earnings for the second fiscal quarter, though the adjusted results beat Wall Street's and sent the stock on an after-hours rally.

Hackers, designers and Silicon Valley technophiles will flood downtown Palo Alto's most prominent gathering spot with food, music, TED-style talks and gizmos galore on June 1 as part of the city's -- and the nation's -- inaugural festival to celebrate "civic hacking." In what the city's Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental called "a first ... (more)

A lawsuit has been filed by Menlo Park physician Dr. Jean W. Gillon over an incident in the early morning darkness of Dec.

Ragazzi Continuo, the Ragazzi Boys Chorus alumni, had their concert last week, and now it's the turn of the current Ragazzi to celebrate the organization's 25th anniversary .

A ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future of colorectal care, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week .

Pres. Barack Obama is slated to visit the Bay Area for a round of fundraisers next month, according to reports.

Meg Donohue celebrates the release of her second novel, "All the Summer Girls," the story of three friends reunited amidst unraveling lives and the secrets that surface in the beach town of of their youth.

With the future of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park up in the air, Palo Alto has selected a hearing officer to evaluate a recent report on the impact of relocating the park's residents.

The Laurel Heights UCSF campus at 3333 California St. could be redeveloped as upscale senior housing under plans being submitted by several groups vying to take over the property.

The check isn't exactly in the mail, but Palo Alto took its first major move toward buying the Hamilton Avenue post office Monday night when the City Council agreed to make a bid for the historic and iconic building.

Palo Alto's official housing vision, already years overdue, will undergo further revisions after residents around Maybell Avenue protested the inclusion of a controversial - and yet unapproved -- senior-housing development in the document.

It's prom season for high schools across the country, but in Palo Alto Friday night, prom came to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Customization is now the name of the game, and Happy Toy Machine is working on a cool way for folks to design and customize their own toys with a Draw Your Own Plush Toy app.

A proposal to build about 65 low-income apartments for displaced families at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park is being considered by the property's developer and the Palo Alto Housing Corporation.

The activist/playwright first came to fame with her 1996 blockbuster "The Vagina Monologues," a play that launched a global movement to fight violence against women.