SCHOOLS & KIDS 'Every 15 Minutes' A group of about 30 students, teachers and emergency responsers worked together to organize "Every 15 Minutes" at Mountain View High School -- an assembly aimed at driving hom... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 19, 2013 at 8:29 pm There have been 14 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 30, 2013 at 4:02 pm.
OTHER ISSUES TCE vapor test results not verified Residents of a condo complex at 175 Evandale Avenue say recent tests of their homes for toxic vapors produced erroneous results.
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OTHER ISSUES 200 apartments proposed for Castro and El Camino In a long-sought redevelopment, a four-story apartment building with retail on the ground floor may soon go up at the corner of Castro Street and El Camino Real, replacing a d... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 19, 2013 at 1:05 pm There have been 99 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 3, 2013 at 6:53 pm.
AROUND TOWN Plastic bag ban starts Monday Shoppers take note: Mountain View's ban on plastic grocery bags begins on Earth Day, Monday, April 22.
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AROUND TOWN 200 apartments proposed for Castro and El Camino In a long-sought redevelopment, a four-story apartment building with retail on the ground floor may soon go up at the corner of Castro Street and El Camino Real, replacing a d... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 18, 2013 at 10:12 pm There have been 16 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 29, 2013 at 10:36 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Military families talk toxic contamination with EPA Military families living on and around a toxic groundwater plume at Moffett Field aired their concerns Monday about toxic vapors entering their homes and brown water that cont... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 18, 2013 at 6:59 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 19, 2013 at 5:57 pm.
OTHER ISSUES LASD eyes former mayor's property As Target proposes to rebuild its Showers Drive store, Los Altos School District officials are apparently eyeing the land owned by former mayor Matt Pear opened up by the pro... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 18, 2013 at 1:22 pm There have been 72 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 26, 2013 at 8:56 pm.
OTHER ISSUES Arts committee chair resigns after comments Before City Council members could vote to remove or censure him Tuesday night, Chris Parkinson resigned his post as chair of the city's Visual Arts Committee.
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AROUND TOWN Get up close to the Solar Impulse After assembling their solar-powered plane at Moffett Field and working out the kinks in the skies above the Bay Area, the team behind the Solar Impulse is ready to lift the c... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 2:52 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 7:24 pm.
AROUND TOWN County asks residents, firms to save energy today Energy officials want residents and business owners to cut down on electricity use today, after several San Jose Pacific Gas & Electric transformers were damaged by vandals ea... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 2:11 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 2:11 pm.
OTHER ISSUES Stanford professor Adam Johnson wins Pulitzer for fiction Adam Johnson, associate professor of English at Stanford, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel, "The Orphan Master's Son."
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AROUND TOWN Pumped up and ticked off A fight broke out at the 24 Hour Fitness on Showers Drive on the morning of April 12, stemming from an argument over whether one man was exercising too close to a fellow gym-g... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 16, 2013 at 5:48 pm There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 3:03 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Bullis not happy with district's facility offer While the Los Altos School District described its April 1 facilities-sharing arrangement to Bullis Charter School as "the most generous that the district has ever offered," it... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 16, 2013 at 2:42 pm There have been 140 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 29, 2013 at 12:59 am.
OTHER ISSUES Hurt foot kept MV runner out of Boston Marathon A last-minute foot-injury kept a Mountain View runner home and out of the Boston Marathon, she told the Voice on Monday.
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OTHER ISSUES Eshoo dedicates post office branch in honor of local soldier Mountain View's downtown post office was dedicated this weekend to Ken Ballard, the Mountain View High School graduate who died in Iraq in 2004 as a United States Army lieuten... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 15, 2013 at 4:41 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 15, 2013 at 4:41 pm.
OTHER ISSUES Traffic delays expected on Foothill and Junipero Serra Traffic along Foothill Expressway and Junipero Serra Boulevard may be impacted for months as Pacific Gas and Electric replaces natural gas lines in the area.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS New trend? Kindergarten enrollment rates drop Officials with the Mountain View Whisman School District have reported a significant drop in the number of kindergartners registering for school.
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AROUND TOWN Leadership Mountain View: Accepting Applications for the Class of 2013-14 Applications are currently being accepted for the class of 2014. Completed application and a letter of recommendation must be received by July 13, 2013. Complete the applicati... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Alicia Crank, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood, on Apr 15, 2013 at 11:07 am
SCHOOLS & KIDS Young Children's Spring Faire - May 4th - Los Altos Come celebrate spring and experience Waldorf education for the young child (nursery and kindergarten ages). Featuring games, circle & singing, crafts, and a puppet show (11 AM... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Waldorf School of the Peninsula, a resident of another community, on Apr 15, 2013 at 11:00 am
AROUND TOWN Military families say they are in the dark about toxics In an anonymous letter addressed to the Army and the local community late last month, military families living at Moffett Field's Wescoat Village say they have "many concerns ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 15, 2013 at 4:16 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 15, 2013 at 4:16 am.
OTHER ISSUES City zeroes in on bike, pedestrian safety The city is continuing to ramp up efforts to make Mountain View more pedestrian friendly after residents called for safer streets in a series of Voice articles published last ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 12, 2013 at 2:44 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 14, 2013 at 11:24 am.
OTHER ISSUES City Council wants to close expressway entrance The City Council is leaning towards closing a Central Expressway on-ramp at the end of Stierlin Road to create a public promenade and the start of a "cycle track" between dow... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 12, 2013 at 2:44 pm There have been 37 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 24, 2013 at 3:20 pm.
AROUND TOWN Pedestrian hit by car dies in hospital Sarra Golukhov, the 81-year-old Mountain View woman who was struck by a minivan near the intersection of Rengstorff Avenue and Central Expressway on April 3, died in the hospi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 11, 2013 at 10:40 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 11, 2013 at 10:40 pm.
AROUND TOWN City zeroes in on bike, pedestrian safety The city is continuing to ramp up efforts to make Mountain View more pedestrian friendly after residents called for safer streets in a series of Voice articles published last ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 11, 2013 at 3:38 pm There have been 18 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 9:09 pm.
AROUND TOWN Community college district to make tough cuts Although good news appears to be on the horizon for higher education, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District is "not out of the woods yet." Around 30 employees, mostl... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 11, 2013 at 3:20 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 18, 2013 at 1:52 pm.