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Friday December 7, 2007 from 6- 9 pm, Photography reception, Norton Gallery, Pacific Art League of Palo AltoSomething Changed In My Eye Currently there is a retrospective of Karen Schreiber’s photographs taken from different...
Original post made by Karen Schreiber on Dec. 5, 2007There are no comments yet. 5674 Views
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Light up the holidaysSeveral hundred people, most of them young children, gathered in Mountain View's Civic Center Plaza on Monday night, waiting...
Original post made on Dec. 5, 2007Last comment by Jon Wiener, on Dec 5, 2007 at 9:42 am | 2 comments | 7346 Views
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City fires IT contractorThe council decided unanimously Tuesday to create a 13-person, in-house information technology department to replace a costly...
Original post made on Dec. 3, 2007Last comment by MtnView Citizen, on Dec 3, 2007 at 3:27 pm | 1 comment | 6767 Views
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Final push planned to clear TCE plumeA new effort to clean the last vestiges of an underground plume of toxic chemicals known as TCE from beneath an area of Mountain...
Original post made on Nov. 28, 2007Last comment by Matt Raschke, on Nov 28, 2007 at 9:42 pm | 2 comments | 6842 Views
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City Briefs<B>Residents, pet sitters fight over dog park Read the full story here http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=3556 posted...
Original post made on Nov. 23, 2007Last comment by Kent Scharninghausen, on Nov 23, 2007 at 10:57 am | 1 comment | 6375 Views
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County puts off LA Hills decisionWatchers of the Los Altos Hills redistricting debate will now have to wait till late January for a decision on the issue,...
Original post made on Nov. 23, 2007Last comment by Sniff, on Nov 23, 2007 at 10:22 am | 1 comment | 6254 Views
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Zoning OKs new Mayfield planZoning administrator Peter Gilli recommended last week that the City Council approve a new master plan for Mayfield that...
Original post made on Nov. 22, 2007Last comment by Kent Scharninghausen, on Nov 22, 2007 at 9:54 pm | 1 comment | 6857 Views
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The Art of Collage: Works by Sylvie A. Serex-Bonnet at CSMA's Mohr GalleryA Benefit Exhibition for the Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center, December 3, 2007–January 26, 2008. OPENING...
Original post made by csma on Nov. 19, 2007There are no comments yet. 5835 Views
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Company floats Zeppelin ideaIf NASA Ames allows it, a Zeppelin airship may arrive at Moffett Field in October of next year — the 75th anniversary...
Original post made on Nov. 18, 2007Last comment by Garrett, on Nov 18, 2007 at 8:03 pm | 1 comment | 4199 Views
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Hospital salaries match those of similar jobsAt our October meeting, the El Camino Hospital board of directors approved salary increases for the executive team. Before...
Original post made on Nov. 17, 2007Last comment by Annoyed, on Nov 17, 2007 at 9:00 pm | 3 comments | 6311 Views
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Students protest to keep cafeCulinary students at Los Altos High School, who purchase recipe items with money they earn by selling meals to students,...
Original post made on Nov. 16, 2007Last comment by mike, on Nov 16, 2007 at 1:22 pm | 1 comment | 6231 Views
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They'll always have ParisLooking for small cities that could inspire French "ecotowns" of the future, senior French official Jacques Attali has picked...
Original post made on Nov. 14, 2007Last comment by anon, on Nov 14, 2007 at 11:06 pm | 1 comment | 6625 Views
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What happened to Ron's Farmhouse?Every year around this time I am priviledged to visit Mountain View for a few days while visiting Stanford Medical Center....
Original post made by DJ Johnson on Nov. 12, 2007Last comment by GSB, on Nov 12, 2007 at 2:10 pm | 1 comment | 9285 Views
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Crime WatchEmbezzlement, Target, 10/24 Read the full story here http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=3501 posted Friday, November...
Original post made on Nov. 11, 2007Last comment by richard, on Nov 11, 2007 at 7:39 pm | 1 comment | 6042 Views
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Hospital overpaying its top executivesThe recent action by the El Camino Hospital board to approve huge salaries and bonuses for the top 10 hospital executives...
Original post made on Nov. 9, 2007Last comment by Grace Metalious, on Nov 11, 2007 at 9:48 am | 4 comments | 5988 Views
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City, Google in hotel talksFor more than 20 years the city has had a goal to build a large hotel with a conference center. Finally, with the help of...
Original post made on Nov. 3, 2007Last comment by ravindra, on Nov 11, 2007 at 7:11 am | 2 comments | 6459 Views
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The scariest house in AmericaThe award-winning "DC Cemetery" on Bush Street that draws big crowds every year isn't just a seasonal hobby for its creators...
Original post made on Nov. 10, 2007Last comment by Jim Thurber, on Nov 10, 2007 at 7:11 am | 4 comments | 6356 Views
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Castro Street ResearchDear Town Square Readers, I am conducting research for a doctoral dissertation on the topic of urban street design and...
Original post made by Joe Kott on Nov. 9, 2007Last comment by Joe Kott, on Nov 9, 2007 at 2:23 pm | 3 comments | 6147 Views
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Educators devaluedThe "two Americas" that John Edwards describes were ironically illustrated in the Oct. 26 <I>Voice</I></B>. Two separate...
Original post made on Nov. 8, 2007Last comment by Jonathan, on Nov 8, 2007 at 12:14 pm | 1 comment | 5796 Views
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Microsoft's month of givingWhen most people hear "Microsoft" and "philanthropy" in the same sentence, they think of Bill Gates. However, Microsoft works...
Original post made on Nov. 2, 2007Last comment by Michelle Thomas, on Nov 8, 2007 at 10:44 am | 3 comments | 7056 Views
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