http://www.mv-voice.com If it is local and useful, it is on mv-voice.com. en-us With light winds and warm temperatures predicted to linger throughout the Bay Area until the end of the week, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has declared Thursday another Spare the Air day, the fourth of the summer.]]> About 22 students of View Side Academy, located at 1012 Linda Vista Ave., were evacuated from the county continuation school's play area Monday, after a fire broke out in a nearby dumpster, police said.]]> A recent fundraiser to benefit victims of the flooding in Pakistan drew more than 400 people to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The Aug. 29 event, organized by disaster-coordination group South Asian Relief, featured guest speaker Imran Khan, a well-known Pakistani cricket player who is now a politician.]]> Shifting weather patterns mean sunnier skies and poorer air quality today across the Bay Area, triggering the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to declare today a Spare the Air Day.]]> Palo Alto may soon take a formal "no confidence" stance against California's proposed high-speed-rail line and begin lobbying state legislators to kill the voter-approved project. A council committee is to consider the matter Thursday morning and the rail plan is agendized for the full City Council's Sept. 13 meeting. ]]> A new rescue vehicle, equipped with the "jaws of life" and special lighting equipment, will improve the efficiency the Mountain View Fire Department's fleet, officials said.]]> Google has invested over $100 million in eight affordable housing projects this year outside of Mountain View, including $19 million for a 124-unit senior housing complex in Sunnyvale where a groundbreaking is scheduled this week.
]]> High school staff went back to school for suicide-prevention training, following a "surprisingly high" number of attempted suicides by Mountain View and Los Altos high school students last year, and the much-publicized suicide cluster at Gunn High School in Palo Alto in 2009. ]]> Caltrain is likely to keep two of its services instead of cutting them to help close a $2.3 million budget gap, a Caltrain spokesman said Friday.]]> The California High-Speed Rail Authority has sent out a letter to Peninsula communities seeking to quash fears that the plans for the proposed high-speed rail line have already been determined.]]> The cities of Mountain View, Los Altos and Cupertino are worried enough about their restaurant businesses going under that they are hosting a workshop on Monday designed to give their restaurants a boost. ]]> In an ironic twist caused by the recession, the controversial high density Mayfield housing development has been significantly scaled back by a new developer.]]> Based on technological advances and predictions made by luminaries like Carl Sagan, it is a "real possibility" that alien life could be found in our galaxy within 25 years, said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at Mountain View's SETI Institute. ]]> Responding to a recommendation from the California School Boards Association, the Mountain View Whisman School District has adopted a new policy to guard against nepotism in its ranks.]]> Mountain View Voice readers go wild for these local businesses, and they showed their love by voting in this year's Best of Mountain View poll. These blockbusters are the places our readers say will treat you better than your own entourage. Categories:
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■ Best of Mountain View 2009]]> About 860 people have weighed in on potential service cuts at Caltrain, including 245 who attended the company's Bay Area public opinion meetings on Aug. 19, a spokeswoman said.]]> Palo Alto Festival of the Arts brings out artists, musicians -- and food]]> Investigators say the fire that consumed a white Chevrolet pickup just off of Ednamary Way two weeks ago was set intentionally. They have yet to determine whether the fire was technically arson.]]> A city policy encourages City Council candidates to spend less than $20,000 on their election campaigns, but candidate Greg David intends to spend well below that.]]> In the wake of El Camino Hospital's announcement that 140 employees will be laid off this fall, fingers have been pointed in just about every direction. So, who or what is to blame for the cuts? That depends on who you ask.]]> Fans of the TV show The Amazing Race were disappointed to find out that reality show contestants did not, in fact, show up at a downtown Mountain View business on Saturday. ]]> Sign-spinning advertisements, also known as "human directionals," are frequent sights on street corners throughout the Midpeninsula. Once relegated to unsold condos and new home developments, sign spinners now point to a variety of business activities, such as oil changes, mattress sales or restaurant openings.]]> This is an updated version of a previously posted story.
The city is looking into complaints from residents after a homeowners association decided to block off a well used path through the neighborhood to Rengstorff Park, the Senior Center and downtown. So far, the city's research indicates that the path was never meant for the public.]]> This is an expanded version of a previously posted story. El Camino Hospital last week notified 195 employees that their jobs are on the line as the hospital prepares to lay off about 140 full- and part-time employees. Among the staff members who will be laid off beginning in October are about 21 nurses, the hospital said.
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