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Daycare center for kids of essential employees opens
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City School District is opening up one of its campuses to be used as a daycare center for the children of […]
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Firefighters help out restaurants in these difficult times
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Firefighters at the Menlo Park Fire Protection District are serving their community in a new way. They are getting take-out food instead of […]
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City to pay $73,000 to end lawsuit claiming police misconduct and ‘sexual advances’
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park officials have agreed to pay $73,745.16 to settle a lawsuit that claimed an unlawful search and unwanted “sexual advances” by a […]
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Menlo Church pastor allowed volunteer attracted to minors to work with children
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A popular pastor at Menlo Church in downtown Menlo Park was put on leave for two months because he allowed a volunteer who […]
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City bans e-cigarettes, but councilman suggests allowing their use with a prescription for smoking cessation
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council unanimously banned e-cigarettes last night (Dec. 17) and then Councilman Ray Mueller proposed something that may be unprecedented. Mueller […]
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City considers making Facebook build a home for every job it creates
This story was originally published in the print edition of the Daily Post on Tuesday. Only a fraction of the local news stories covered by the Post appear on this […]
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State approves city’s ban on natural gas in new homes — other cities’ bans to face state scrutiny
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Menlo Park’s ban of natural gas in new homes for heating, hot water and clothes dryers has received the green light from a state […]
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Yelp’s wrong, Flegels is open
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Even though rumors and websites such as Yelp claim that Flegels in downtown Menlo Park has closed, Manager Brian Flegel says the long-standing […]
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Resident sues over Pope-Chaucer Bridge plan, saying it was a done deal before public saw it
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Menlo Park man is suing the government agency tasked with reducing the possibility of flooding along the San Francisquito Creek, saying that […]
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Police chief tells of near-miss with teen bicyclist
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer What do you do when a bicyclist blazes through a stop sign or red light when you’ve got the right-of-way, and you nearly […]
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City says fire district will get top priority when deciding how to use land on Willow Road
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park’s city manager said yesterday (Oct. 31) that the Menlo Park Fire Protection District’s plan to build a fire station on land […]
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City to buy land for future fire station on east side
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council has decided to buy a piece of land at the corner of Ivy Drive and Willow Road for $3.6 […]
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Developer told to find a new place for Feldman’s
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park Planning Commission has told the builders who want to redevelop Feldman’s Bookstore to try to find another location for the […]
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Opinion: How bribery works in today’s world
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor America has come a long way from the days of Tammany Hall, when a developer would have to lug a briefcase full of […]
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Suspect in Kathy Anderson’s murder is ordered to stand trial
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A judge has decided that there is enough evidence to bind a man over for trial in the Dec. 12 murder of Menlo […]
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City looks to ban flavored tobacco
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park is slated to be the next city to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. On Tuesday (Oct 15), Mayor Ray […]
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Menlo Park mom gets three weeks in prison in college admissions scandal
A Menlo Park jewelry business co-owner was sentenced in federal court in Boston today (Oct. 16) to three weeks in prison for paying $15,000 for cheating on a college entrance […]
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Housing development could replace Feldman’s Bookstore
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park residents want to stop the replacement of a used bookstore on El Camino Real with a housing development. Local developer Chase […]
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Menlo Park father avoids jail in college admissions scandal
A Menlo Park man who owns a frozen foods company avoided jail yesterday (Oct. 11) after admitting he paid $15,000 to rig his daughter’s college entrance exam in a widespread […]
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Guild Theater is closing Thursday
By the Daily Post staff The 95-year-old Guild Theater on El Camino Real in Menlo Park, the mid-Peninsula’s last single-screen movie house, will close on Thursday (Sept. 26), its operator […]