Santa Clara employees begin receiving layoff notices
Some Santa Clara employees will begin receiving layoff notices this week, but there is still time to avert job losses.
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Which is more eco friendly – real or artificial Christmas trees?
Real Christmas trees leave a smaller carbon footprint than artificial ones, especially if replanted after the holidays. Artificial trees, however, can be eco friendly if they’re used for more than 20 years.
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San Carlos and Belmont prepare for split of fire department after 31-year partnership
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.
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Eight Stanford student filmmakers to screen documentaries tonight
Eight documentary film students will showcase their work at 7:30 p.m. in Stanford’s Annenberg Auditorium tonight. Unlike most film schools, which focus on digital filmmaking, Stanford requires students’ first projects be in black and white 16mm film.
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Taxes on marijuana may force a showdown between state and federal laws
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.
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Hamlet on Alcatraz – director makes career performing Shakespeare in unusual places
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.
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San Mateo levee project may pull funding from parking expansion
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.
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With a major-league field and a new coach, baseball is on the rise at Sequoia High
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.
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As population grows, East Palo Alto questions fairness of water allotment proposal
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.
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