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'Cops and Gobblers' seeks cash, volunteers
The Mountain View Police Officers' Association hopes to deliver baskets full of food to hundreds of less fortunate families around the city this Thanksgiving as a part of its 13-year-old Cops and Gobblers program. (Friday, 11:14 AM)

Art unlocks doors for disabled at CSMA
When Mike was a child, poor treatment at an institution left him with a fear of being outside and a hesitation around doors. Now, nearly half a century later, weekly art classes at the Community School of Music and Arts help him overcome these obstacles. (Friday, 10:59 AM)

Thursday, November 19, 2009
TONIGHT: VTA presents analysis of light rail
The Valley Transportation Authority will present its first comprehensive analysis of Santa Clara County's light rail system during a meeting this evening at Mountain View City Hall. (Thursday, 12:19 PM)

Council approves new office building on Evelyn
The days are numbered for Pacific Euro Hotel after the City Council unanimously approved an office building to go where it sits on Evelyn Avenue, just west of Castro Street and a stone's throw from the train station. (Thursday, 10:55 AM)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Proposal to study new BMX park is DOA
The subject of building a new BMX park in Mountain View was not on the agenda Tuesday night, but was brought up at the end of the meeting by Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga — and promptly killed in a deadlocked 3-3 vote. (Wednesday, 4:38 PM)

The happiest place in the USA
Mountain View and the surrounding region is the happiest place in the whole country, according to a national poll which breaks its findings down by congressional district. (Wednesday, 4:10 PM)

Foothill College facing 'unprecedented cuts'
Community colleges have not been immune to the state's slashes to educational funding, said Foothill College president Judy Miner in a talk to Mountain View community leaders last week — these days, in fact, even tenured faculty face the ax. (Wednesday, 12:56 PM)

Troubled Summerhill apartments get new owner
In what many hope will be the final chapter of a long drama, Bay West Realty Capital has purchased the 64-unit Summerhill apartment complex at 291 Evandale Ave., with the intention of renovating its vacant, dilapidated buildings and turning them into market-rate rental housing. (Wednesday, 10:44 AM)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
El Camino's new hospital 'comes alive'
After years of planning, culminating in a well-rehearsed patient and ER move from the old facility on Sunday morning, El Camino Hospital's brand-new $470 million facility is now open. (Tuesday, 7:46 PM)

Rapist gets 25 to life for Terra Bella attack
San Jose resident Melchor Paredes was sentenced last week to 25 years to life in prison for the 2007 rape of a young woman on Terra Bella Avenue. (Tuesday, 2:33 PM)

Local man a suspect in Menlo Park sex assault
A case of sexual assault on a male victim at the Alma Street footbridge in Menlo Park has a Mountain View connection, police say, but they add they are unable to solve the case because the victim is being "very, very uncooperative." (Tuesday, 11:08 AM)

Monday, November 16, 2009
Craigslist ad leads Palo Alto police to bike thief
Palo Alto police arrested an alleged thief in Mountain View last week after he posted an ad on Craigslist for a bicycle that had been stolen in Palo Alto earlier this month. (Monday, 3:22 PM)

Kniss: Distribution of H1N1 vaccine is 'political'
Supervisor Liz Kniss bemoaned the small number of doses of the H1N1 vaccine in Santa Clara County and called their slow distribution "political" during a community forum on the disease last week at the Mountain View Senior Center. (Monday, 3:13 PM)

Developer selected for NASA Research Park
TMG Partners and "The Related Companies" have been selected to be master developers of a unique $1 billion research park at Moffett Field in a partnership with NASA Ames and local universities. (Monday, 1:51 PM)

Mountain View writers tackle NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month challenges participants to produce a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. To that end, several local writers came to East West Bookstore on a recent Monday to put in another long session at the keyboard. (Monday, 11:40 AM)

Rail authority approves $9 million PR effort
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has hired a new player to assist in its admittedly flagging public relations: a global PR firm which will be paid $9 million for its work to improve the agency's community outreach. (Monday, 11:27 AM)

Police hunt for armed man in kidnap-robbery
A 27-year-old Mountain View woman was awoken at gunpoint early Saturday morning after a man entered her apartment through a bedroom window, then forced her to drive to a bank and remove cash, police say. (Monday, 11:15 AM)

Friday, November 13, 2009
County to offer H1N1 clinics this weekend
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department has announced several additional H1N1 vaccine clinics for the upcoming weekend. (Friday, November 13, 2009, 1:03 PM)

NASA Ames: Water found on the moon
Scientists at Mountain View's NASA Ames Research Center dramatically announced Friday morning the discovery of water on the moon. (Friday, November 13, 2009, 12:09 PM)

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Teens get rare inside view of Google, NASA
About 30 teenagers from lower-income families in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park will get a rare insider's look at Silicon Valley giants such as Google and Facebook this Friday, while others will tour NASA Ames and a half-dozen other sites. (Thursday, November 12, 2009, 3:22 PM)

Trustees consider upping school bus fees
The Mountain View Whisman School District board is considering approval of a potential increase in transportation fees, from $360 this year to $400 for a full-year pass in 2010-11. (Thursday, November 12, 2009, 3:03 PM)

EDITORIAL: The development dilemma
Recently, the city spent millions to purchase several acres from the county at Moffett Boulevard and Highway 101 with the intention of turning the site into a freeway-accessible shopping center. Also recently, the council set ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Do we detect a conflict? (Thursday, November 12, 2009, 3:02 PM)

Science Week a hit at LAHS
Though it sounds like a typical college class, a talk last Friday from eBay's vice president of North America pricing was actually for math and science students at Los Altos High School, just one among dozens of special speaker events during the school's annual Science and Tech Week. (Thursday, November 12, 2009, 2:38 PM)

Gas prices stay high in Bay Area, drop statewide
The average price for gas remained above $3 in the Bay Area but has dropped below that mark statewide due to high supplies and weak consumer demand, according to an AAA survey released Wednesday. (Thursday, November 12, 2009, 11:10 AM)

City opens spigots on recycled water
The city of Mountain View is celebrating the launch of a $19.8 million recycled water system that officials say may not be the most visible public works project ever, but is visionary nonetheless, saving up to a million gallons of water a day. (Thursday, November 12, 2009, 11:04 AM)

Home school program back on the table
A modified version of Mountain View Whisman's home schooling program may be here to stay — or at least back for the 2010-11 school year, trustees said at their regular meeting last week. (Thursday, November 12, 2009, 10:50 AM)

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
LASD superintendent announces retirement
Los Altos School District Superintendent Tim Justus has announced that he will retire at the end of this school year. (Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 1:35 PM)

City's hidden tribute to fall of Communism
This week, Mountain View residents join others around the world in marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But few know that their city is home to two pieces of the Iron Curtain — on display for anyone to see in a Shoreline office park. (Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 12:22 PM)

Poll indicates green light for green bond
A recent telephone survey of district residents has led Mountain View-Los Altos School District officials to believe they have enough community support to put a proposed bond measure on the June 2010 ballot. (Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 11:35 AM)

Counties to get more doses of H1N1 vaccine
Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are in line to get more doses of H1N1 vaccines because they have so far come up short in state allocations, officials say. (Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 10:33 AM)

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