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Target no longer interested in Fry’s site
By EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Target is no longer interested in opening a store in a portion of the old Fry’s Electronics site on Portage Avenue in Palo […]
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Newsom warns he might impose a new lockdown order
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who made headlines for flaunting Covid restrictions in order to attend a birthday dinner for a lobbyist at the pricey French Laundry restaurant in Napa, suggested today […]
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Council puts Downtown Streets Team’s contract on hold until it gets more information about sexual harassment investigation
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted last night to postpone renewing a $323,244 contract with Downtown Streets Team, which hires homeless people to clean […]
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Lame-duck pro-growth majority on council will pick new planning commissioners
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer The lame-duck pro-housing majority on Palo Alto City Council will appoint new members to the Historic Resources Board and Planning and Transportation Commission […]
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Sobrato wants to put townhouses on part of Fry’s lot
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer The Sobrato Organization is proposing to build 85 townhouses on a portion of the old Fry’s Electronics lot on Portage Avenue in Palo […]
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Couple start petition drive to put Foothills Park access issue to voters
This story was originally published in the Nov. 19 edition of the Daily Post. If you want to stay current with all of the local news, pick up a copy […]
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Jenny, one of two Bol Park donkeys, dies of old age
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Jenny, one of the donkeys who lives in Palo Alto’s Bol Park, has been euthanized because illnesses related to aging, the Palo Alto […]
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Council broadens the role of police auditor
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council decided last night (Nov. 16) to widen the authority of the independent police auditor and have the auditor report […]
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Tightening of Covid restrictions may delay return to classroom for 6th through 12th graders; restaurants react to dining room closures
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto’s sixth- through 12th-grade students may have to postpone their return to in-class instruction because of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order Monday returning […]
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Council to consider plans for 102 apartments on San Antonio Road
By the Daily Post staff City Council is scheduled to vote Monday (Nov. 16) on whether to approve 102 apartments on San Antonio Road at Leghorn Street in south Palo […]
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Suspect arrested following burglaries in College Terrace neighborhood
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police, with the help of homeowners’ surveillance cameras, have arrested one of two suspects in a string of home burglaries in the College […]
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School board gets an earful over plan to bring students back to school
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Teachers, students and parents called in last night (Nov. 10) to express their disapproval of the Palo Alto school district’s plan to bring […]
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Council looks at ways to fill empty storefronts
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto City Council wants to find a way to fill more than 50 vacant storefronts because of closures caused by the […]
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Palo Alto school administrator takes superintendent post in San Bernardino County
By the Daily Post staff The Palo Alto school district’s deputy superintendent, Karen Hendricks, has accepted the job of superintendent of the 6,000-student Alta Loma School District in the San […]
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Pedestrian, 79, killed downtown
By the Daily Post staff A 79-year-old Palo Alto woman died after a car hit her in downtown Palo Alto. The woman, Pinxiang Zhou, was crossing Waverley Street in the […]
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New grocer to fill vacancy in College Terrace building
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council is expected to approve a new grocery store on El Camino Real in the College Terrace neighborhood where two […]
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Convicted Palo Alto murderer Bulos Zumot will get a new trial
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen to either release Palo Alto convicted murderer Bulos […]
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Council votes 5-2 to open Foothills Park to everyone
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto City Council, after getting hit by a lawsuit from the NAACP and ACLU, voted 5-2 tonight to drop the Palo Alto residents-only restriction […]
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Council may decide tonight on whether non-Palo Altans can visit Foothills Park
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Although the city of Palo Alto has decided several times since the 1970s not to open Foothills Park to non-residents, a lawsuit filed against […]
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City offers compromise in controversy over Castilleja expansion
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Two top Palo Alto city planners are offering a compromise regarding the controversy over Castilleja School’s expansion proposal that would limit enrollment, traffic […]
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Police aren’t wearing masks, complaint filed
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto police officers often walk around without masks during the Covid pandemic, even though they supposedly must follow the same rules as […]
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Council drops gag-order proposal for board and commission members
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council last night (Oct. 26) dropped a proposal that would have stopped members of boards and commissions from talking to […]
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Former robotics teacher sues school district alleging harassment, homophobia and bullying by parents
This story was originally printed Oct. 21 in the Daily Post. If you don’t want to miss out on important local stories, pick up the Post in the morning at […]
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Another burglary of home while resident slept; police step up patrols
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are investigating another nighttime burglary of an occupied home, the fourth such incident in the past two weeks. Police said they are […]
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Avenidas names interim CEO as Andonian takes leave
By the Daily Post staff Avenidas, the Palo Alto-based nonprofit that provides senior services, announced today that John Sink, its head of enrichment services, will become the agency’s president and […]
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Ladomirak leads in fundraising for school board race
By the Daily Post staff Newcomer Jesse Ladomirak has raised $28,034, which is $10,000 more than the other Palo Alto School Board candidates whose finance forms were posted to the […]
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Crescent Park home burglarized while residents were asleep
By the Daily Post staff A couple who lives in the 1100 block of Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood discovered a burglar — possibly using a hidden […]
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Council to take another vote on opening Foothills Park following ACLU lawsuit
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Foothills Park could be opening to non-Palo Alto residents sooner than expected. The city released a statement last night (Oct. 22) saying City […]
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Tanaka collects the most campaign dollars, followed by Kou and Burt
Correction: An earlier version of this story gave an outdated figure for candidate Cari Templeton. This version reflects her current year-to-date fundraising total. BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer […]
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City says suit alleging police brutality is full of sarcasm and slang
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Lawyers for the city of Palo Alto are trying to get a police brutality lawsuit dismissed or amended because it is too snarky. Attorneys […]
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Council criticized for proposal to stop commissioners from talking to the press
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto residents told City Council on Monday that a proposal to stop members of city boards and commissions from talking to the […]
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Council looks for money for firefighters, libraries
BY KYLE MARTIN AND SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Members of Palo Alto City Council said they want to prioritize city services such as firefighters and libraries over capital […]
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Kou won’t give her opinion on Castilleja project after receiving donations from school’s supporters
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilwoman Lydia Kou, who is seen as a slow-growth candidate, sent an email to her supporters Thursday defending her refusal to […]
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Homes burglarized while residents sleep — police seek 2 men
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are looking for two burglars who hit two homes while residents slept inside and stole a car from a third in an […]
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Rep. Eshoo responds to reader who pointed out overflowing mail boxes
Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, is pressuring the U.S. Postal Service to pick up the mail more frequently at Palo Alto’s Hamilton Avenue Post Office after reading this letter in […]