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The district attorney will not go to battle for Peter Carpenter, the open-government crusader and Atherton resident, who is trying to force the Sequoia Union High School District to bring to open session a decision that the board made behind closed doors.

Click on picture to enlarge. Students change classes in the main corridor at Menlo-Atherton High School in the early 1950s, shortly after the school was opened at a cost of $1.5 million.

The Menlo-Atherton High School Thespians will present "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 18-20, in the Menlo-Atherton performing arts center on the Atherton campus.

Four business and community leaders were recently elected to the Notre Dame de Namur University Board of Trustees.

City leaders concerned about the impacts of a high-speed rail line running up the Peninsula are considering pooling public funds to hire lobbyists, conduct technical analyses and ramp up public outreach efforts surrounding the project.

Manteca will host the 31st annual Quilt and Cloth Doll Show at 10 a.m. today and Sunday at the MRPS Hall, 133 N. Grant St.

A number of Peninsula cities are gearing up for the release of a report by the California High-Speed Rail Authority on what the heralded and controversial project is proposed to look like in San Mateo County.

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton , www.shschools.org , a Roman Catholic, independent and coeducational school for students in preschool through twelfth grade, has just achieved two major "firsts" for its dedication to environmental responsibility.

Atherton's quaint little branch library needs to more than double in size, expand its collection and make a number of improvements, according to a recently completed study.

Thursday, March 4 at 10 AM- Employment Roundtable featuring several Bay Area employers in a panel discussion.

Thieves got away with almost $53,000 in stolen goods in some 19 property crimes in Atherton and Menlo Park over the week that started Friday, Feb 19, according to police logs for both communities.

Chris Barrett, a five-year veteran of the Menlo-Atherton Vikings Pop Warner football program, recently signed a letter of intent to play for the University of San Diego.

Anyone who wrote a check to the town of Atherton for "road impact fees" between July 2006 and September 2009 will soon be eligible for a refund, town officials said Friday.

In the wake of the largest police scandal in Atherton and perhaps Peninsula history, the currently vacant police lieutenant position is now reportedly "on hold". Chief Mike Guerra and Town Manager Jerry Gruber had run a national search, and recently vetted a list of top three candidats with an internal board of town residents including Menlo Park ...

The Menlo Park City School District must consider laying off as many as eight teachers, creating multi-grade level classes and making significant cuts to its art, physical education and Spanish programs to offset a projected $2.02 million deficit next year and a $2.85 million deficit in 2011-2012, the district's superintendent told the school board ...

Living room with access to patio/lawn, 2 remodeled baths, dual-paned windows, hardwood floors, surround sound, and lutron switches with remotes.

A 59-year-old Chicago woman arrested last week in Atherton during a home burglary has been charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor, a prosecutor said.

It seemed like a good idea at the time: charge builders a road-impact fee and use it to repair Atherton roads torn up by heavy construction vehicles.

A 44-year-old woman pleaded guilty Monday to stealing a $60,000 pair of earrings from the Atherton family she worked for as a housekeeper and taking $4,000 from the family's nanny, attorneys said.

When Elizabeth Nevigato told her parents, Giuseppe and Maria Nevigato, that she wanted nothing more than to open a restaurant, her mother worried that her eldest child, barely 20 years old, didn't know what she'd be getting herself into.