AROUND TOWN
Service above self
If you want to do well while doing good, Mountain View's Rotary Club provides both outlets — business networking and community involvement — wrapped into one.
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on Jan 2, 2009 at 8:34 am by Alicia Crank, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Role models turn students into better citizens
Partners for New Generations, a local mentoring and tutoring program, organizes 150 volunteers to work with at-risk students in the Mountain View and Los Altos public schools.... |
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on Dec 30, 2008 at 2:22 pm by Denise, a resident of the Blossom Valley neighborhood |
OTHER ISSUES
Google makes more real estate moves
In an effort to centralize its workforce, Google has moved employees out of three buildings totaling 128,000 square feet, now up for lease, and moved the employees closer to t... |
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on Dec 26, 2008 at 11:32 am by Joe Renter, a resident of the Monta Loma neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Worker center plan still angers neighbors
The city's Design Review Committee maintained its composure during a tense meeting last Thursday as residents living near of the site of a planned Day Worker Center continued ... |
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on Dec 24, 2008 at 10:32 pm by Carl, a resident of another community |
AROUND TOWN
Correction
A story in the Dec. 5 Voice provided incorrect information on new city regulations on the use of Segway scooters. Segways are banned on all Mountain View sidewalks,... |
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on Dec 22, 2008 at 9:51 pm by Tom Johnson, a resident of the Martens-Carmelita neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Google vacates some buildings, buys others
In an effort to centralize its workforce, Google has moved employees out of three buildings totaling 128,000 square feet, now up for lease, and moved the employees closer to t... |
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on Dec 21, 2008 at 3:32 pm by Mike H., a resident of the Jackson Park neighborhood |
OTHER ISSUES
Hospital construction on track
El Camino Hospital administrators say the new facility is on track and below budget, and should be open for patients in fall 2009.
Read the full story here Web Link... |
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on Dec 21, 2008 at 1:38 pm by Mary, a resident of another community |
ELECTIONS
Election results show city leans left
Mountain View showed its political stripes in the November election, voting to the left of the county and much of the state according to certified results released earlier thi... |
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on Dec 20, 2008 at 3:42 pm by smart growther, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Happy trails
Stevens Creek Trail, a four-mile walking and bike path connecting several neighborhoods with thousands of jobs in the Shoreline district, has prompted the Association of Bay A... |
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on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:09 am by BIKER, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
OTHER ISSUES
Business advice from the master
The Computer History Museum, together with the Churchill Club, recently presented an evening with Sam Wyly, who was interviewed by venture capitalist Dixon Doll.
Read the fu... |
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on Dec 11, 2008 at 10:05 am by Randall Flagg, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood |
MOVIES
Jericho Now on You Tube
Just wanted all of you to know that CBS has put Jericho on You Tube. It’s the first CBS series to be released this way.
Jericho is an alternate future story of what happens... |
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on Dec 10, 2008 at 11:41 am by ratkeeper, a resident of another community |
AROUND TOWN
TONIGHT: Decision time for Mayfield, Annex
The City Council is scheduled to vote on two big issues at its meeting tonight: the Mayfield plan, and a master plan for the Cuesta Annex.
Read the full story here Web Link... |
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on Dec 10, 2008 at 9:35 am by Long Time MV Resident, a resident of the Blossom Valley neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Ode to an old mailbox
Old-fashioned letters are not as popular as they once were, with more people relying on e-mail and other high-tech means of communication. And it may be your neighborhood mail... |
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on Dec 9, 2008 at 5:30 pm by USA, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
OTHER ISSUES
Region facing food and shelter 'crisis'
The economic slide spreading from Wall Street to Main Street has hit the "side streets and back streets" local food providers said during a "Food and Shelter Summit" in Mounta... |
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on Dec 9, 2008 at 2:22 pm by Kanne, a resident of another community |
AROUND TOWN
The power of sexy
Some local environmentalists are deploying a new weapon in the fight against global warming: the female figure.
Read the full story here Web Link... |
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on Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 pm by Angela Hey, Mountain View Voice Blogger |
AROUND TOWN
Anyone know why there is a power outage in Waverly Park
It started about 12:30pm and 2 hours later we are still without power. |
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on Nov 25, 2008 at 2:30 pm by GSB, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood |
ELECTIONS
Surprise turnaround for BART measure
BART proponents and opponents have been on the edge of their seats over the last few weeks, watching to see whether Measure B, the one-eighth-cent sales tax to help bring BART... |
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on Nov 21, 2008 at 7:42 pm by Bart Only-Taker, a resident of another community |
OTHER ISSUES
Even if they overturn prop 8
People are going to hate homosexuals. This is just another example of how minorities will have equal rights but in the end to the rest of america it will be another reason to ... |
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on Nov 21, 2008 at 2:15 pm by Randall Flagg, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood |
RESTAURANTS
Take a pass on Chilean sea bass
Late last July, I opened the Voice to find a picture of a moist, flaky, delicious-looking chunk of fish atop a bed of garlic noodles studded with mushrooms and garn... |
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on Nov 20, 2008 at 11:46 pm by kristin flrorence devine, a resident of another community |
OTHER ISSUES
Mountain View man arrested in triple murder
Santa Clara police arrested a laid off technology company employee Saturday who returned to the business Friday afternoon and fatally shot three employees.
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on Nov 18, 2008 at 3:25 pm by FamilyMan, a resident of the Jackson Park neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Housing Development- Grant Rd. and Covington
What is the status of the housing development proposed at Grant Rd. and Covington (former site of Pumpkin and Christmas Tree Farm? I drove by there the other day and still no... |
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on Nov 17, 2008 at 4:01 pm by Daniel DeBolt, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
OTHER ISSUES
Fake Parking Tickets
I recently came back to my car from a store and found a fake parking ticket. My car was parked legally in a parking spot, and may have been slightly crooked, but it was in bet... |
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on Nov 15, 2008 at 4:17 pm by Randall Flagg, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
District hires new at-risk intervention supervisor
The elementary school district has hired a new intervention supervisor to work with at-risk students at Graham Middle School, replacing Marco Garcia, who left to become a Moun... |
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on Nov 14, 2008 at 2:42 pm by Mr. Cuesta, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood |
OTHER ISSUES
Mountain View man gets life in prison for '06 shooting
A 23-year-old Mountain View man was sentenced to 115 years to life in prison Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court for a December 2006 shooting that injured a pregnant ... |
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on Nov 13, 2008 at 9:07 pm by ALEX ZUNIGA, a resident of the Sylvan Park neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Man with Molotov cocktail thwarted
Thanks to an intervening neighbor, an apartment on the 400 block of Del Medio Avenue was spared an attack early last week by a man trying to light a Molotov cocktail.
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on Nov 6, 2008 at 1:35 pm by USA, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
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