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City revises plan for elections
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park voters won’t get to decide on a City Charter to change how council members are elected until 2020 or even 2022, […]
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Replacement of troublesome bridge hits a snag
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Replacement of the Pope-Chaucer Street Bridge — which was blamed for much of the damage in the 1998 flood that inundated Palo Alto, […]
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Library bond measure likely this year
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer While a pollster asked likely 2020 voters if they would support a $50 million bond measure to fund the city’s library, city officials […]
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Combo parking structure and theater likely to move up on Menlo Park’s priority list
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A parking garage with an entertainment center — such as a movie theater — may be catapulted up the Menlo Park City Council’s […]
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Perfume heir fights plans for Willow-101 interchange
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer An Atherton venture capitalist who is the grandson of perfume and cosmetics mogul Estee Lauder is fighting the new design for the Willow […]
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City gets 32 applications for committee to draw council district maps
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Clerk’s office received a sudden surge of applications for a citizens committee that will draw the boundary lines for […]
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Little interest in council district committee
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Only three people have applied to be on the Menlo Park Advisory Districting Committee, which will draw a map dividing the city into […]
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New book explains city’s street names
This story was originally published in the Daily Post on Nov. 13. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer If you’ve ever wondered who or what a street is named […]
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Growth cap in Menlo Park plan nearly exhausted 14 years early
This story was originally published in the Daily Post on Dec. 4. BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The city of Menlo Park is already approaching a development cap set […]
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Bats nesting behind mural of St. Francis of Assisi get a wake-up call
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A crew hired to power wash a home in Menlo Park found nearly 100 bats nesting behind a mural of the patron saint […]
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Squirrel almost burns down house
By Bay City News Firefighters in Menlo Park this morning (Dec. 24) responded to a home fire that they believe was started by a squirrel. Firefighters responded at 6:17 a.m. […]
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Proponent of council districts concerned that newcomers will dilute votes of longtime Belle Haven residents
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proponent of district elections for Menlo Park City Council — to give African Americans and Latinos on the east side a better […]
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Cmdr. Dave Bertini named interim Menlo Park police chief
Menlo Park City Manager Alex McIntyre today (Dec. 21) named police Cmdr. Dave Bertini as interim police chief, replacing Robert Jonsen, who was hired as chief in Palo Alto. McIntyre […]
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Menlo fire district to pay $6.6 million for acre on Middlefield
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park Fire Protection District announced yesterday (Dec. 20) it has bought an acre of land for $6.6 million from St. Patrick’s […]
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ADA litigant sues Chef Kwan’s, city of Menlo Park; She’s filed 37 suits in 30 months
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A popular Chinese restaurant and the city of Menlo Park have been hit with a lawsuit from a serial Americans with Disabilities Act […]
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Man arrested for stalking girl, 14; his ‘gifts’ included bottles of urine
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Menlo Park man is in jail after he left flowers, love notes and containers full of his urine for a 14-year-old girl […]
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Proposed Santa Cruz Ave. project faces heavy resistance
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park Planning Commission on Monday (Dec. 11) delayed approving a three-story mixed-use development on Santa Cruz Avenue in downtown, with one […]
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Police issue $11 million warrant for shooting suspect
By the Daily Post staff Menlo Park police said yesterday (Dec. 7) they have issued an $11 million arrest warrant for the man suspected of shooting and nearly killing a […]
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Plan to ease Willows gridlock approved
Above, vehicles clog the streets near Arnold Way and Durham St. in Menlo Park. Photo from Ana Uribe Ruiz. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council […]
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Growth cap in long-range Menlo Park plan nearly exhausted 14 years early
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The city of Menlo Park is already approaching a development cap set in 2012 for the El Camino Real-downtown area that was intended to […]