After seven years of planning and debate, Redwood City leaders approved plans to develop a three-block radius downtown, including up to 2,500 housing units and retail, office space and hotel rooms.
Affordable housing is already at a premium in Redwood City. Housing advocates fear Gov. Jerry Brown’s plans to eliminate redevelopment agencies will make it even more scarce.
A day after Stanford promoted assistant football coach David Shaw to head coach, assistants Greg Roman and Vic Fangio left to join former Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh coaching the San Francisco 49ers.
Stanford University promoted offensive coordinator David Shaw to head coach today, replacing Jim Harbaugh, who announced last Friday that he would leave Stanford to coach the San Francisco 49ers. Shaw, who was seen as the player’s choice to succeed Harbaugh, will have the task of maintaining the recent growth of the football program. Stanford football
Aaron Blanding, a special education teacher at Woodside High School, recently began using iPads with his orthopaedically impaired students. These devices have helped the students develop and learn.
In 2009 the Sequoia High School baseball field got a $40,000 facelift. But it took another year and the hiring of a new coach to give the team and the program the makeover it needed.
About 100 concerned Carlmont High School parents attended a presentation by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday to learn how to identify drugs and whether their teens might be using them.
The Redwood City School District will have a full year of classes ending June 9, 2011 thanks to increased funding from the state’s newly passed budget.
Early returns indicate that California voters are rejecting a ballot initiative that would suspend a state climate-change law.