After identifying sandboxes in two Redwood City parks that were contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the city is renovating the parks, removing the sandboxes and replacing them with water attractions.
Independent bookstore customers are increasingly curling up with Kindles, iPads and Nooks. Google Editions allows independent stores to sell e-books from their websites.
East Palo Alto is home to the largest per capita homeless population in San Mateo County, with roughly 230 people living on the streets. Project We HOPE runs the city’s only warming shelter.
The Peninsula Press interviewed a number of homeless at the event and visited the “Field of Dreams,” where East Palo Alto’s homeless once camped out in large numbers. Signs of the encampment still exist, and at least one makeshift shelter appears to be in use.
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.
East Palo Alto mom Ofelia Valencia’s started taking community cooking class when her 9-year-old started gaining weight. The classes are part of the city’s effort to help families fight childhood obesity.
The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department took over police services in San Carlos last month and will soon be bidding to do the same in cash-strapped Half Moon Bay. Such arrangements give the sherrif’s office steady revenue.
Half Moon Bay must cut spending by as much as $1.2 million. The city will likely contract police services with the San Mateo County sheriff or partner with a nearby city.
The San Mateo South Bayfront Levee Improvements Project is designed to reduce flood risk for 8,000 local properties. The city’s public works department is working with FEMA to lower insurance rates in the area.
In an effort to replenish songbird populations, the City of Saratoga and the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society are teaming up to start a nestbox program in the city’s open spaces.