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Fans of the Alpine Inn, Portola Valley’s oldest roadside attraction ...
WEBMar 3, 2022 · SLIDESHOW: A server brings a pizza to a full table at the Alpine Inn during the restaurant’s 170th anniversary celebration in Portola Valley on Feb. 28, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. SLIDESHOW: The Fake Shamen, made up of Eric Nelson III, right, and Brian Wachhorst, left, perform at Alpine Inn during the restaurant’s 170th anniversary celebration in Portola Valley on Feb. 28, 2022.
Former teacher faces nearly seven years in prison for sex acts with ...
WEBNov 1, 2019 · A former teacher charged with engaging in sex acts with a minor pleaded no contest to several charges on Wednesday, Oct. 30, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Redwood City resident Dawn Giannini, 50, faces up to six years and eight months in prison, according to the DA’s office.
Longtime local pastor starts new Menlo Park church
WEBAug 31, 2018 · Charley Scandlyn, a father of seven, longtime Menlo Church pastor and former executive director of the Ravenswood Education Foundation, has started a new church – and intends to breathe fresh life into the former First Baptist Church site at 1100 Middle Ave. in Menlo Park. He worked since March to …
Feature: How Woodside couple transformed cattle ranch with …
WEBJun 25, 2017 · Pomponio Ranch cattle is pasture-raised on 2,800 acres of coastal hills in San Gregorio. The meat is served in a handful of restaurants on the Peninsula and is sold at farmers’ markets and Roberts Market in Woodside. Located about five miles inland, Pomponio Ranch has been used as a cattle ranch off and on since the late 1880s.
Living with Parkinson's disease - The Almanac
WEBNov 12, 2016 · Parkinson’s patients also can be depressed or confused and have speech and writing difficulties. “There’s no cure; there’s management,” Ms. Speicher says. “My Parkinson’s is different from everybody else’s Parkinson’s,” she says and what helps her may not help others. But she has learned, she says, “with the right medicine ...
Head of Menlo Church steps down over ‘poor judgment’ - The …
WEBJul 29, 2020 · Pastor John Ortberg resigned from his job at Menlo Church on July 29, 2020. Courtesy Menlo Church. Ortberg’s “poor judgment has resulted in pain and broken trust among many parents, youth volunteers and staff” and he “needs to focus on healing and reconciliation within his own family,” the church’s board stated.
Early returns show Christina Corpus in lead against incumbent …
WEBJun 8, 2022 · The mood was buoyant as supporters trickled out of Christina Corpus’s election night watch party. In one of the county’s most contentious races, Corpus has taken the lead over incumbent Sheriff Carlos Bolanos, according to unofficial election results. As of the results late Tuesday night, Corpus was leading with roughly 55% of the vote.
Those blue USPS mailboxes? Don't leave your mail in them, postal ...
WEBAug 3, 2023 · Following The Almanac’s April 7 story on a mail theft incident in West Menlo Park, multiple residents reached out with stories of checks mailed on weekends being stolen. One of the residents, Robert Grant, said that he had left eight checks in mailboxes located outside of the Avy Avenue branch post office over a weekend.
Glimpse of history: Flood estate artifacts offer a look into the past
WEBMay 10, 2018 · The cast iron and zinc fountain was produced in 1878 by J.W. Fiske in New York and restored — from the top of the nymph’s head to the tiled basin — by the Osters in 2017. Long before it was part of a suburban garden, the fountain was a feature of the grand estate built by silver baron James C. Flood, said to once have been the richest man ...