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Palo Alto schools may reopen sooner than expected
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Council agrees to use automated license plate readers for parking enforcement
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council last night (Feb. 22) unanimously approved spending $140,000 for automated license plate readers to catch cars without parking permits […]
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Council sets a $6 per car fee to enter Foothills Park with some exceptions
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council decided tonight that the city will charge $6 per car to enter Foothills Park, with some exceptions, as the […]
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Driver of carjacked BMW arrested after chase — he’s also a suspect in a downtown mugging
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police have arrested a 16-year-old suspect who led them on a chase in a BMW that had been carjacked at gunpoint the night […]
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City to consider buying license plate readers for parking enforcement
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto might spend up to $140,000 on automated license plate readers to catch unpermitted vehicles parked in areas requiring […]
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City ordered to pay $1.9 million in back wages
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The city of Palo Alto is poised to pay certain Utilities Department employees a combined $1.86 million in back wages following a judge’s ruling […]
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Palo Alto’s Garden Court Hotel rebranded as el Prado
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto’s 62-room Garden Court Hotel, which opened in 1986, has a new name, el Prado, and is undergoing an interior redesign. El Prado, at […]
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Atherton couple donates $80 million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford Medical School
An Atherton couple has donated $80 million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford University’s School of Medicine to improve the services available to Bay Area mothers and babies. […]
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City may rename Foothills Park, offer annual passes
The Palo Alto City Council may change the name of Foothills Park and limit the number of visitors. Foothills Park would be renamed to Foothills Nature Preserve to better distinguish […]
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Playground fight become subject of legal claim
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer How litigious is Palo Alto? A fight on a kindergarten playground that resulted in stitches for one child has blossomed into a full-fledged […]
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UPDATE: PG&E drops plans to seize part of Cubberley parking lot
STORIES BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Update: Saturday, Feb. 13: Palo Alto school district leaders prevailed yesterday (Feb 12) when PG&E dropped plans to seize part of the […]
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Driver of truck that hit school bus didn’t have a license
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer An unlicensed driver behind the wheel of a dump truck ran a red light and T-boned a Palo Alto school bus carrying seven […]
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State agency fines Kniss, DuBois; Kou under investigation; Complaint names Greer
BY EMILY MIBACH AND KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writers The state Fair Political Practices Commission has fined former Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss and current Mayor Tom DuBois for […]
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Grades 7-12 could return to school in March
This was first published in the Saturday, Feb. 6, print edition of the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Daily Post in the […]
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Gunman robs 76 station
By the Daily Post staff A man with a gun held up the 76 gas station at E. Charleston and San Antonio roads and is at large today. On Tuesday […]
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Council hears proposals for 400 homes in two developments
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto’s pro-housing advocates and Residentialists faced off last night (Feb. 8) to offer their opinions about two proposed housing developments that, if […]
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San Mateo County cops want Covid shots
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Mateo County Police Chiefs and Sheriff Association is asking the county’s public health department to step up its Covid vaccinations of […]
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State pulls liquor license of Ernie’s Liquors
This story was originally published in this morning’s print edition of the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at […]
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Council approves new police station
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Feb. 1) voted to start construction of a $118 million police building, although Vice Mayor Pat Burt and […]
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Councilwoman says colleagues blew it when they passed fee schedule for Foothills Park
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilwoman Alison Cormack said tonight that City Council “overreacted and over-corrected” while rushing to pass an emergency ordinance that implemented $6 […]