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Music@Menlo’s French-themed festival gets underway
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Music@Menlo artistic directors Wu Han and David Finckel begin planning the annual summer chamber music festival, set to start July 19 on the campus of Menlo School in Atherton, two years in advance. The three-week musical extravaganza, now in its 22nd season, involves myriad decisions about schedules, programs, repertoire and the hiring of dozens of musicians. But even the most careful advance planning can go awry when the unexpected, in the form of a musician’s departure, happens.
Hospital Operator Backs Off Closure of East San José Trauma Center After Public Outcry
Following months of outcry from residents and county officials, leaders of the Regional Medical Center in East San José are backing off plans to shutter the hospital’s trauma center and cut other services. Although the hospital announced Friday morning that it would preserve its trauma center, severe heart...
Auto burglaries leave Mountain View streets with strewn glass but few items stolen
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A spate of auto burglaries on two residential streets in Mountain View left more than a dozen vehicles with smashed windows on Friday morning last week, although only a few items were taken from vehicles, according to the Mountain View Police Department. The break-ins...
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.
Arts briefs: International dance festival, Anat Cohen, Old 97’s and more
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This weekend, the Peninsula International Dance Festival highlights dance from around the world; Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Leslie Mendelson plays at Sound Union; Anat Cohen and her Quartetinho perform an intimate concert with Brazilian influences at Stanford Jazz Festival; long-running alt-country and pop-rock group Old 97’s perform at The Guild; the Obon Festival takes place at Mountain View Buddhist Temple; and Djerassi hosts an open studios day at its secluded Woodside ranch.
Announcing New Boys and Girls Club of the Coastside Community Ambassador ~ Kerri Beffa Conlon
PRESS RELEASE. From the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastside July 2024. We are delighted to announce the addition of Kerri Beffa Conlon to our team as our new Community Ambassador. Ms. Conlon will be working closely with the Board of Directors and our Executive Director, Jill Jacobson, to raise awareness about and funds for BGCC from the community.
Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside (SAM) Takes Big Step Forward by Approving Design/Build Funding for their Intertie Pipeline Force Main in Montara
SAM’s FMM (Force Main at Montara) has been in continuous service for more than 40 years and has approached the end of its useful life. There has been a series of failures in the FMM, interrupting service and leading to sanitary sewer overflows (SSO’s) in recent years. In...
Ladera Community Church affordable housing project makes progress
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Portola Valley’s second multi-family affordable housing development is slowly progressing. On June 30, Ladera Community Church, at 3300 Alpine Road, received a 75% approval from church members to pass a resolution to move forward with negotiations with nonprofit Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity plans to build and fund the development.
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