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Judge dismisses lawsuit over Palo Alto's Cal Ave lane reduction plan - San Jose Mercury News
Judge dismisses lawsuit over Palo Alto's Cal Ave lane reduction plan
San Jose Mercury News
By Jason Green The city of Palo Alto's controversial plan to transform California Avenue into a two-lane road is poised to move forward now that a judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging its legitimacy. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge ...
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East Palo Alto woman held in man's fatal stabbing - San Francisco Chronicle
East Palo Alto woman held in man's fatal stabbing
San Francisco Chronicle
An East Palo Alto woman was arrested Tuesday for allegedly fatally stabbing the father of her child, police said. Natisha Anderson, 33, called police shortly before 8:30 am to say she had stabbed Charles Perry III in the leg at her home on Camellia ...
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Anaerobic digester study moves forward in Palo Alto - San Jose Mercury News
Anaerobic digester study moves forward in Palo Alto
San Jose Mercury News
By Jason Green The Palo Alto City Council pushed forward Monday with a plan to study the possibility of building an anaerobic digester in the Baylands, but not before wrestling with the question of whether to end an existing compost operation and ...
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Farm life stories appeal to urban, rural, liberal, conservative - The Vancouver Observer (blog)
Farm life stories appeal to urban, rural, liberal, conservative
The Vancouver Observer (blog)
Whether he's holding a dying horse, suffering the ignorance of well-meaning but foolish farm inspection agents, or ruminating on the pasture ecology, Brett has a special talent for making simple observations of the natural world - plants, ...
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Beloved live oak, dubbed George, chopped down in Palo Alto - San Jose Mercury News
Beloved live oak, dubbed George, chopped down in Palo Alto
San Jose Mercury News
Palo Alto public works employee Bill Croft, left, loads a trunk piece of a coast live oak named ÒGeorgeÓ on the 800 block of Cowper Street on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The tree, nicknamed George, was cut down this week because of extensive decay.
After more than a century, the venerable 'George' is cut downPalo Alto Online
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School Board Suggests Hoover Middle As Future Site Of Bryant Elementary - KCAU
School Board Suggests Hoover Middle As Future Site Of Bryant Elementary
KCAU
The idea would be to make it big enough to house kids from a number of schools: send half of Bryant's students there and the other half to the new Hunt replacement school being built in 2018. There is another new option: Sunken Gardens.
Options narrow for new Bryant Elementary siteKTIV
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Online learning 'an enabler for teaching' - Virtual College
Online learning 'an enabler for teaching'
Virtual College
Mr Buckley compared online learning systems to the way similar products are used in the private sector in order to boost productivity for businesses. "If it's not based on sound pedagogy it's like automating a bad business process.
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Accuvant Named 2011 Palo Alto Networks Partner of the Year - EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Accuvant Named 2011 Palo Alto Networks Partner of the Year
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
DENVER--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Accuvant, the only research-driven information security partner delivering alignment, clarity and confidence to enterprise and government clients, today announced that it has been named Palo Alto Networks 2011 ...
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East Palo Alto woman arrested for fatally stabbing boyfriend - KTVU San Francisco
East Palo Alto woman arrested for fatally stabbing boyfriend
KTVU San Francisco
Police in East Palo Alto have arrested a woman suspected of fatally stabbing her boyfriend at their home Tuesday morning, a police sergeant said. Officers went to 1240 Camellia Drive after receiving a 911 call shortly before 8:30 am from 33-year-old ...
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The Urban Canopy Aims To Bring Rooftop Urban Farming To Chicago's South Side ... - Huffington Post
The Urban Canopy Aims To Bring Rooftop Urban Farming To Chicago's South Side ...
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Rooftop farming can be a vital part of the local agriculture movement to create the sustainable and equitable food system we desperately need. So, for those of us completely lacking green thumbs, could you explain what exactly the Urban Canopy has ...
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The Urban Canopy Aims To Bring Rooftop Urban Farming To Chicago's South Side ... - Huffington Post
The Urban Canopy Aims To Bring Rooftop Urban Farming To Chicago's South Side ...
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HP: Have you always been interested in farming or is this a more recent interest? I'm curious how you would arrive at an idea like Urban Canopy. AP: My path to becoming a farmer is definitely strange. At the University of Illinois, I studied computer ...
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Bainbridge High School students attend 2012 young adult safety conference - Post Searchlight
Bainbridge High School students attend 2012 young adult safety conference
Post Searchlight
Students from Bainbridge High School came together Feb. 3 and Feb. 4, to join the Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) at the 2012 Youth and Young Adult Leadership Conference at Callaway Gardens. The conference, which was attended by ...
Northview Students Attend Safety ConferencePatch.com
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Secret garden a fantasy come true - Manawatu Standard
Manawatu Standard
Secret garden a fantasy come true
Manawatu Standard
She said the childcare centre would be based on the Reggio Emilia approach, a learning philosophy that places focus on collaboration, the environment and exploration. "It's about making children become capable and competent from a young age.
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Palo Alto product Jeremy Lin making an impression with New York Knicks - San Jose Mercury News
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Palo Alto product Jeremy Lin making an impression with New York Knicks
San Jose Mercury News
By Alex Pavlovic apavlovic@mercurynews.com They're calling it "Linsanity" in New York, where everyone from local talk radio hosts to The Wall Street Journal are weighing in on Jeremy Lin, the former Palo Alto High and Warriors guard.
From Ivy Halls to the Garden, Surprise Star Jolts the NBANew York Times
Jeremy Lin sleeps on his brother's couchLarry Brown Sports
Given a chance, Lin becomes New York's newest starWall Street Journal
Bloomberg -Mashable
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Urban Garden? Check. Now, Chickens. - New York Times (blog)
New York Times (blog)
Urban Garden? Check. Now, Chickens.
New York Times (blog)
Cities throughout the United States and Canada are now reforming land-use and health policies to allow and even encourage urban agriculture as a moneymaking enterprise. Yet urban chicken keepers are finding that backyard hens remain controversial.
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East Norriton Middle School receives $5000... - The Times Herald
East Norriton Middle School receives $5000...
The Times Herald
They are thrilled to announce that Lowe's has awarded the East Norriton Middle School (ENMS) funding for the East Norriton Middle School Idea Garden. Their grant application was based on the goal of using the natural aesthetic of a garden to inspire ...
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Facebook Fallout -- East Palo Alto Worries It Will Disappear - New America Media
Facebook Fallout -- East Palo Alto Worries It Will Disappear
New America Media
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A baby blue billboard displaying a giant thumbs up hand, the iconic Facebook “Like” symbol, stands on the corner of Willow Road and the 84 freeway, facing Menlo Park. It marks the entrance into the new campus of Facebook, ...
Five Things You Need to Know Today: February 7Patch.com
Realtors: Facebook IPO is talk of the townThe Almanac Online
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Breakthrough Innovation -- Solve for X -- Bring on the Moonshots - Huffington Post
Breakthrough Innovation -- Solve for X -- Bring on the Moonshots
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Some of the areas discussed include: healthcare, education, transport, energy and the food system. We heard a presentation about a new mode of package transport called MatterNet. MatterNet proposes to build a network of ground stations for a fleet of ...
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Local food vital to urban reform - Daily Aztec
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Local food vital to urban reform
Daily Aztec
The council voted unanimously to approve a set of reforms to urban agriculture regulations. The new rules now allow backyard chickens, bees and even miniature goats at urban residences. The change also increases opportunities for the sale of fresh ...
San Diego deregulates urban agriculturehealthycal.org
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Anaerobic digester study moves forward in Palo Alto - San Jose Mercury News
Anaerobic digester study moves forward in Palo Alto
San Jose Mercury News
By Jason Green The Palo Alto City Council pushed forward Monday with a plan to study the possibility of building an anaerobic digester in the Baylands, but not before wrestling with the question of whether to shutter an existing compost operation and ...
Palo Alto ponders next steps for compost plantPalo Alto Online
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