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Superintendent Kevin Skelly Friday posted a letter to the PAUSD website from a Palo Alto city official that describes the OCR bullying complaint at Duveneck Elementary School as "blown up out of proportion." See Web Link Claude Ezran, a member of Palo Alto's Human Relations Commission, and his wife sent the letter to Skelly on May 12.

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

PALO ALTO, CALIF. &#151On a beautiful May morning at Tesla's headquarters, I found myself behind the wheel of an all-electric Model S sedan preparing for a quick test drive with Tesla rep Josh Cohen seated beside me and CNET's Wayne Cunningham in the back seat.

The Tuttles with A.J. Lee Palo Alto's Tuttle family joins forces with frequent musical collaborator A.J. Lee for a bluegrass concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18.

A RITUAL CHEESE CRACKING ... The new gourmet grocery store The Fresh Market will forgo the usual ribbon cutting in favor of a cheese-cracking ceremony when it opens its new store at Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center in Palo Alto on June 5. Perhaps befitting a gourmet store, the cheese cracking will follow an age-old Italian tradition of breaking open ... (more)

Imagine making a substantial family investment in something before determining its value, how other family members felt about it and deciding if it was the best way to meet your family goals? That's exactly what has happened with the city of Palo Alto's botched handling of a development proposed by the Palo Alto Housing Corporation , and neighbors ... (more)

The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the status of the city's labor negotiations with the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto and to discuss possible renewal of the lease for Cubberley Community Center.

Time moves on and technology moves forward. There used to be a video store at 2645 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto, but the video stores are bowing out.

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

After years of budget cuts and staff freezes, the Palo Alto Police Department is now experiencing an "early thaw" and looking forward to hiring more officers and restoring a motorcycle-riding team of traffic enforcers that was disbanded during the leaner times of yesteryear.

Like faces on Mount Rushmore, images of the great composers are daunting, burned into our collective memory.

TBD The Palo Alto Medical Foundation is a not-for-profit, community-based multi-specialty group practice of medicine.

Already dealing with two new active investigations into whether it violated the civil rights of a Duveneck Elementary School student and a middle school student, the Palo Alto Unified School District was notified Friday that a third case has been opened by the federal Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Managed care companies offer comprehensive care for low-income seniors and people with disabilities for a fixed monthly rate.

As Palo Alto nears the finish line in adopting a long overdue housing vision, residents in one neighborhood are rising up to protest a late revision in the document that would accommodate a controversial senior-housing development on Maybell Avenue.

I'm looking at a recipe right now that calls for a stick and a half of butter and a quarter cup of heavy cream, and I haven't even gotten around to the crust yet.

It would have been much easier to simply tear down the 1909 Craftsman that caught Azar Lohrasbpour's eye as she was taking a shortcut through Crescent Park to work one day in 2008.

Plans for a bicycle boulevard along Barron Park's Matadero Avenue will be discussed at a community meeting on Wednesday, May 15.

Q I was driving on Highway 101 within the Palo Alto city limits when I was pulled over by Mountain View police on the San Antonio Road eastbound offramp, also within the Palo Alto city limits.

Robert W. Taylor, a Woodside resident for 30 years and a visionary in the development of computer networks and modern personal computing, including the availability of information online, has been inducted into the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows in Mountain View.