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With $9M price tag, ‘glass’ house in Portola Valley is priciest sale of the week
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Each week, Embarcadero Media takes a look at home sales activity along the Midpeninsula in the communities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Portola Valley and Woodside. Home sales are provided by California Resource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from counties’ recorder’s offices. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks. Here’s a look at home sales activity between June 4-21 that was made public the week of July 15.
Deputies find stolen gun, drugs during traffic stop in North Fair Oaks
A man was arrested and a stolen gun and drugs were seized following a traffic stop in the community of North Fair Oaks on Thursday, deputies said.According to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, officers were conducting a traffic operation near Middlefield Road and 6th Avenue when they spotted an alleged traffic violation.Deputies stopped the driver, who was found to have a suspended license. During a search in which a K-9 was used, deputies also found the passenger of the vehicle had a gun and narcotics.The gun was determined to be stolen, according to the sheriff's office.Deputies arrested the passenger, identified as 33-year-old Vincent M. Salinas. He was booked into the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon inside a vehicle, carrying a concealed stolen weapon, carrying a loaded firearm in public and possession of a controlled substance while armed with a loaded gun.The driver, identified as 51-year-old Robert W. Lloyd, was cited and released from the scene, deputies said.Authorities did not say when Salinas would appear in court on the charges.
Welcome to the ACC, Stanford Football
The ACC welcomed three new members to the conference on July 1, and one of those new members is the Stanford Cardinal. While Pitt and Stanford aren’t squaring off on the football field this season, it’s a series that will pick up for the fifth time in the coming seasons and for just the second time since the 1930s.
Bay Area airports, hospitals, courts hit hard by global tech outage
A widespread global tech outage did not spare the Bay Area, causing havoc Friday morning at major airports, regional health care facilities and court systems. The outage — caused by a faulty update from a widely used cybersecurity firm — hit the region’s airports especially hard. Over 100 Friday morning flights were canceled at San Francisco International Airport, Mineta San Jose International Airport and San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport. Thousands of people were forced to re-book early morning flights while others continued to wait in crowded airports for their regularly scheduled flights.
Hot weather returns to bake Bay Area inland regions; triple-digit temps expected
The hottest day of the week in the Bay Area arrived on Friday bringing another round of triple-digit temperatures to inland areas but relief was coming as soon as the weekend.The National Weather Service said a Heat Advisory was in effect until 11 p.m. Friday for the Sonoma Coastal Range, North Bay interior mountains and valleys, East Bay Hills and interior valleys, Santa Clara Valley, and Eastern Santa Clara Hills. Areas along the San Francisco Bay shoreline and the coast were escaping the heat on Friday, although a Coastal Flood Advisory was issued for bay shoreline area from 9 p.m. Friday...
How San Mateo's new street closure has helped some businesses and hurt others
San Mateo is one of many Bay Area cities trying to revitalize its downtown. While they are having some success, not everyone likes the way they've gone about it, closing two city blocks to cars.It started out as a pilot program after the pandemic -- pushing cars away from two city blocks in downtown San Mateo and allowing pedestrians to be in the driver's seat, so to speak."It'll be closed the next three to five years and we're making the best of it," said Mackenzie Jakoubek executive director of the Downtown San Mateo Association.She oversees 550 businesses in the area,...
Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion
Serial entrepreneur and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has made a bunch of lucrative moves in his time – but his $27 million mega-mansion certainly hasn't been one of them. His lawyers even called it a "lemon" in a recently filed lawsuit accusing the builder of negligence, fraud, and other failures.
Financial literacy class will soon be required to graduate high school in California
SAN DIEGO — More real-life education is coming to the California classroom. A personal finance course is being added to the list of high school requirements. Local lawmakers say the new legislation will allow young people to learn how to save for the future, invest and spend wisely. "That's...
UCSC alumnus named 2024 Bay Area Entrepreneur of the Year
JoeBen Bevirt (Cowell ’94) was named a 2024 Bay Area Entrepreneur of the Year award winner alongside eight others. The annual award recognizes and celebrates the Bay Area's most inspiring entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies who are commercially successful and committed to building a better future. Bevirt founded...
Bobalu Shares Latest California Strawberry Update
OXNARD & SANTA MARIA, CA - The spring strawberry crop is still going strong as Bobalu works to meet seasonal demand. In the supplier’s most recent update, we learn how volumes are looking out of the main California strawberry growing regions. “We are still in the heat of summer...
Megan Pagnini wins Miss California Mid-State Fair Pageant
– The California Mid-State Fair announced that 18-year-old Megan Pagnini of Paso Robles has been crowned the 2024 Miss California Mid-State Fair Queen and Miss Congeniality. Ashlee Holt, 18, of Paso Robles, was named 1st Runner Up, and Logan Rutherford, 21, of Paso Robles, was named 2nd Runner Up. Vanessa Pinedo, 18, of Paso Robles, won the Talent Competition with her Folklorico dance to “Son de la Negra.” Hailey Terrell, 17, of Templeton, won the Interview Competition.
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Push to combat Bay Area mail theft gets attention at federal level
Members of a South Bay community say they've been repeatedly hit by mail theft thieves and are desperate for solutions.Neighbor's surveillance video from a South San Jose condo complex shows a cluster of community mailboxes being opened wide with a master key, not by one of the homeowners or a postal worker, but by thieves."You can see the guy actually opening it right here, opening it with a key and you can tell because he's opening this specific slot here that uses the master key," said John Young who shared the video.Law enforcement says that thieves often times get those...
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