AROUND TOWN Peet's Coffee & Tea selling for $1 billion Longtime Bay Area fixture Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. will be sold to a German company for $1 billion, the Emeryville-based company announced in a statement Monday. Peets has sev... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 24, 2012 at 4:21 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 24, 2012 at 11:09 pm.
AROUND TOWN Tuesday, July 24 [Web LinkTalk: Abbas Milani]
Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian-studies program at Stanford University, will give a free talk at... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 24, 2012 at 1:40 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 24, 2012 at 1:40 pm.
AROUND TOWN 15 arrested in county child-porn sweep Detectives from 30 law enforcement agencies, including Mountain View, have arrested 15 people in a crackdown targeting child pornography on Thursday, July 19.
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AROUND TOWN Bicycle stolen out of open garage A bicycle was stolen on Tuesday from the open garage of a home in the 1800 block of Appletree Lane, police said.
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AROUND TOWN Campaign launched to save tiny 1888 "immigrant house" Local residents once fought to save the home of Mountain View pioneer and businessman Henry Rengstorff, but now there's an effort to preserve a tiny home that provided shelter... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 20, 2012 at 2:10 pm There have been 18 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 27, 2013 at 7:17 pm.
AROUND TOWN Weekend, July 21 & 22 [Web LinkTheater: 'A Year with Frog and Toad']
Peninsula Youth Theatre presents a musical about Frog and Toad, based on the... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 20, 2012 at 12:50 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 20, 2012 at 12:50 pm.
AROUND TOWN A piece of history The last piece of Hangar One's exterior came off Thursday, wrapping up an environmental cleanup that took just over a year.
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AROUND TOWN Fighting the law with free foie gras Animal rights activists are up in arms over a local chef's decision to continue serving foie gras despite a new state law banning its production and sale. They can quack about... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 19, 2012 at 12:22 pm There have been 34 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 28, 2012 at 5:18 pm.
AROUND TOWN Temple's Obon fest celebrates family The thrumming of Japanese taiko drums reverberated through the air during a recent practice at the Mountain View Buddhist Temple. Participants chanted and performed traditiona... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 19, 2012 at 7:20 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 20, 2012 at 3:27 pm.
AROUND TOWN Disability Pride Parade moves to Mountain View Disabled and non-disabled residents of Silicon Valley will march together in downtown Mountain View on Saturday, July 21, as part of Silicon Valley Independent Living Center's... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 18, 2012 at 8:26 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 21, 2012 at 1:01 pm.
AROUND TOWN Groups set to appeal Chick-Fil-A Over the last week two separate efforts sprang up to oppose a Chick-Fil-A fast-food restaurant approved by the city's zoning administrator. One group says the company's "bigot... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 18, 2012 at 4:53 pm There have been 19 comments on this topic, the most recent on Aug 11, 2012 at 10:09 am.
AROUND TOWN PCP suspected in violent outburst Police are saying PCP may have fueled a series of violent events which began outside a Mountain View grocery store and ended with five officers struggling to restrain a man at... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 17, 2012 at 3:42 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 17, 2012 at 4:16 pm.
AROUND TOWN VIDEO: Voices Around Town | Summer Day Trips Living in the Bay Area, there is no shortage of fun day-trips one can take in order to have a day of in the sun. Where do you like to go in order to get away for the afternoon... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 17, 2012 at 3:26 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 17, 2012 at 3:26 pm.
AROUND TOWN Let the sun shine Bits of blue sky are visible through the mostly stripped skeleton of Hangar One at Moffett Field. Work to remove the toxin-laced siding from the massive hangar is nearing comp... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 17, 2012 at 2:47 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 17, 2012 at 2:47 pm.
AROUND TOWN Google's Marissa Mayer named Yahoo CEO Yahoo has appointed Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new chief executive officer, the company announced today, July 16. Mayer, 37, a Palo Alto resident, will take the hel... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 17, 2012 at 10:40 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 18, 2012 at 9:40 am.
AROUND TOWN Gilmore Street Celebrates Its 25th 4th of July Block Party Residents and former residents of Gilmore Street celebrated the 4th of July as they have since 1988 - with a block party, food, fun, laughs and lots of reminiscence. Neighbor... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by crumbs, a resident of the St. Francis Acres neighborhood, on Jul 17, 2012 at 12:01 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 17, 2012 at 1:31 pm.
AROUND TOWN Keep on dancing Ever since neon spandex, pump-up music and enthusiasm for aerobic dancing spread across the country in the early 1970s, aerobics classes have been held in downtown Mountain Vi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 15, 2012 at 2:22 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 15, 2012 at 2:22 pm.
AROUND TOWN Hacker Dojo launches Kickstarter campaign Mountain View's open community of computer programmers and engineers could very well be forced out of town if Hacker Dojo can't make a slew of fixes to its Whisman Road buildi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 13, 2012 at 4:45 pm There have been 17 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 19, 2012 at 10:34 am.
AROUND TOWN Weekend, July 14 & 15 [Web LinkCommunity: Shoreline Outrigger community day]
Ho'oku'i, the Bay Area's newest outrigger canoe club, holds its mon... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 13, 2012 at 2:38 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 13, 2012 at 2:38 pm.
AROUND TOWN Chick-Fil-A approved, with drive-through Zoning administrator Peter Gilli on Wednesday evening approved a new Chick-Fil-A with a drive-through for 1962 El Camino Real. The Sizzler now there refused to pay "anything c... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 12, 2012 at 8:57 pm There have been 18 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 18, 2012 at 1:36 pm.
AROUND TOWN Google housing axed in city's general plan Council members were not moved Tuesday night by last-minute efforts by the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor to keep housing as an option for future development of Google's ne... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 12, 2012 at 7:53 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 18, 2012 at 4:37 pm.
AROUND TOWN MV driver arrested in deadly pedestrian crash Family members of the man killed in a grisly car accident last month reacted with relief Tuesday to the news that police have arrested the driver of the vehicle that killed Wi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 12, 2012 at 2:20 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Aug 12, 2012 at 9:33 am.
AROUND TOWN Thursday, July 12 [Web LinkMusic: Acoustic guitar]
Jack Cutter plays solo acoustic-guitar compositions at Morocco's Restaurant, 873 Castro St., Mount... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 12, 2012 at 11:18 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jul 12, 2012 at 11:18 am.
AROUND TOWN City officials move to prevent suicides City officials hope to help change Mountain View's higher than average suicide rate with a new policy and training for the city's 600 employees.
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AROUND TOWN Google housing axed in city's general plan Council members were not moved Tuesday night by last-minute efforts by the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor to keep housing as an option for future development of Google's ne... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jul 11, 2012 at 2:08 pm There have been 40 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 19, 2012 at 3:59 pm.