In 1979, San Carlos and Belmont created a joint fire department to reduce the cost fire services. Now, San Carlos has decided to break from the joint Fire Department – claiming it’s less expensive.
On Election Day, voters approved a number of local marijuana taxes, which may bring simmering tensions between California and federal drug laws to a boil.
Ava Roy, founder of the Bay Area’s We Players, has made a career staging Shakespeare plays in unusual settings. After much contemplation – and 36 days nearly alone at sea – she decided to take on a big challenge: producing Hamlet on Alcatraz.
San Mateo’s public works department has proposed taking $1.4 million budgeted for a downtown parking garage and using the money to bolster flood prevention in neighborhoods south of San Mateo Creek.
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.
A proposal to allocate water supplies in the San Francisco Bay Area has angered East Palo Alto officials, who say it fails to reward low consumption and is based on how much water the city needed 26 years ago.
At two parks in Redwood City, sand features have been permanently closed, due to recurring outbreaks of E. Coli bacteria in the sand itself. Renovations to change the sand to water features are underway.
The East Palo Alto Police Department will use automatic license plate readers to identify law breakers. The devices record license plate numbers within a certain radius and can run them through crime databases.
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Susan Manheimer is now San Mateo’s first female chief of police, but she never considered police work until she and her daughter were victims of a 1982 robbery.