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East Palo Alto teacher creates middle school tutoring program to tackle education gaps
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 2020, Harriette Huang left behind an engineering and tech-related career to become a teacher in East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood City School District, where her goal was to minimize education gaps between Ravenswood schools and schools just outside the city. But she quickly...
Palo Alto Woman’s Necklace Stolen During Walk, Authorities Searching for Two Suspects
PALO ALTO – Two suspects are being sought by Palo Alto police after an elderly woman claimed that her jewelry was taken during a weekend walk. The victim reported to police at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday that she had been the victim of a grand theft that had happened on the 2600 block of Cowper Street just moments before.
Fire ignites at East Palo Alto vehicle salvage yard, may be linked to theft
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A fire broke out at a vehicle salvage yard on Bay Road in East Palo Alto near Cooley Landing and Ravenswood Open Space Preserve at around 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 14. The two-alarm fire, which took place at Infinity Auto Salvage, sent a...
Meet Menlo Park’s new disaster preparedness coordinator, Brandon Bond
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Emergency preparedness was identified as one of the Menlo Park City Council’s top priorities for the year, and to achieve that goal, Menlo Park has created a new position to help the city develop a streamlined system to tackle emergencies and disasters. The...
Family support marks hall of fame inductions
Legendary journalism college teacher and sports writer Sam Goldman was inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame on June 27. While sitting in the courtroom of the San Mateo County Historical Museum in Redwood City listening to Goldman’s daughter, Sandra, thank the hall of fame committee for inducting her dad into the 2024 Class, my thoughts drifted back to my first meeting with Sam Goldman.
Stanford Hires Danielle O’Toole-Trejo as Pitching Coach
Coaches Corner Justin McLeod – July 15, 2024 Danielle O’Toole-Trejo is the new pitching coach at Stanford, the school announced on Monday. O’Toole-Trejo spent the 2024 season as the pitching coach at Cal, leading the Bears’ bullpen to a 3.06 staff ERA. “Danielle is a rising star in the softball world,” Stanford head coach Jessica Allister said. “As a head coach you always keep an unofficial list of candidates should an opening occur. Danielle has been at the top of my unofficial[…]
Lacrosse 2024 Season in Review
STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford lacrosse closed out the Pac-12 era in dominant fashion taking both the Pac-12 regular season and the tournament titles. Despite a slow start to the season with consecutive one goal road losses to Virginia and Yale, the Cardinal then rattled off four straight wins, including an 18-12 win against No. 19 Colorado. Aliya Polisky scored seven goals in the game, her third straight with at least four, and tying for the fifth most in program history.
Exclusive: Santa Clara Co. Office of Education under investigation over misuse of Head Start funds
At 8:50 a.m. on Monday, a half dozen Office of Head Start (OHS) officials arrived at the Santa Clara County Office of Education on Ridder Park Drive in San Jose, Calif. to continue their review of the county office. OHS is an office of the Administration for Children and Families....
International Surf Classic #7 in San Jose
Now in its seventh year, the International Surf Classic is back with a barrel roll of sound. Copresented by KFJC FM, this year’s artists are paddling in from NorCal (the Del-Novas), SoCal (Slacktone), New England (the Nebulas), New York City (the Coffin Daggers) and Mexico City (the Strings Aflame). Yup, that’s right. They don’t just call it international—it actually is! So, for all those cool cats, hip chicks and daddy-os looking for extra cred, two coats of wax on the car, fresh threads and an all-day beach party minus the sand is a cranking way to go.
Patricia Donn in San Jose
In the poem “Spanish Dancer,” Rainer Maria Rilke writes about a dancer setting her hair afire “with a glance” and turning her dress into a “fiery rapture.” For anyone who would like to experience such fierce beauty in person, flamenco artist Patricia Donn delivers. An award-winning choreographer and dancer, Donn has commanded the attention of audiences worldwide with undeniable intensity. Backed by a live band in partnership with the Royal Opera of Madrid, she honors this traditional Spanish art form like no other, lighting up the stage like a match in the dark.
Tech company opens new San Jose office and adds jobs in expansion
SAN JOSE — A tech company has opened a new office in San Jose in a job-creating expansion that counters the dreary drumbeat of tech layoffs and space cutbacks in the Bay Area. ISE Labs plans to employ hundreds at the new office in north San Jose, the company...
San Jose unveils war monument at Vietnamese Heritage Garden
San Jose’s Vietnamese community is celebrating a long-anticipated monument symbolizing its post-war roots in the city after the project faced years of delays. The statue, unveiled Saturday at the Vietnamese Heritage Garden, features a Vietnamese soldier and an American soldier, both armed and standing beside each other atop rocky terrain in front of the flags for both countries. District 7 Councilmember Bien Doan, who represents the Kelley Park neighborhood where the garden was created, stood beside fellow elected officials who helped bring the monument to life. Doan said he wants it to be a place for reflection, education and inspiration to future generations.
Man arrested after prank calling police over 200 times
(KRON) – A man was arrested for calling the Fremont Police Department dispatch center more than 200 times and hanging up shortly after the call connected, the department announced on social media. Fremont police dispatch received more than 124 prank calls from a disconnected cell phone on June 24. The caller contacted Fremont PD continuously […]
Union City Highlights R3 Master Plan Achievements in Latest UC Now Issue: Reclamation, Renewal, and Reimagination
The latest scoop on all things local comes to us through Union City's own UC Now, the digital newsletter that's keeping the community dialed in. The just-released edition offers more than your usual assortment of updates and success stories; it's a compendium of a city's path to revitalization as laid out in the R3 Master Plan which stands for Reclaim, Renew, and Reimagine. As reported by the city's publication, the newsletter outlines a fruitful year and how Union City's strategic vision is coming into being.
Father of toddler found dead in San Jose died by suicide, officials say
SAN JOSE, Calif. - New details have emerged in the case of the 3-year-old-girl found dead at a recycling facility in San Jose. Police said they are still investigating the motive and circumstances surrounding the child's death and that of her father, who officials said died by suicide. Loved ones...
Interview: Andrea Gordon of READING SERIES EXTRAVAGANZA at Magic Theatre
If you were artistic director of a prominent Bay Area theater company looking for someone to produce an ambitious new play reading series, you couldn’t make a better choice than Andrea Gordon, and she is exactly who Magic Theatre’s Sean San José tapped to helm its Reading Series Extravaganza. In addition to being a playwright herself, Gordon has been directing and producing award winning theater on the West coast since 1983. She has been resident director at Theater Artists of Marin and the One Act Theatre Company, Artistic Director for Tour de Force Theatre Company, and Co-Artistic Director at the Eureka Theatre, and has directed plays for theater companies up and down the California Coast, and in New York City and Chicago, giving her a wealth of contacts to call on going back some 40 years. She is also coming fresh off the success of her play Miriam and Esther Go to the Diamond District, which she wrote, directed and produced at the Magic just this past winter.
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