Belmont News

A divided San Carlos City Council approved Tuesday changes Tuesday to the way the city funds its joint fire department with the city of Belmont, though it remains to be seen if its partner city will agree to pay over $100,000 more per year under the plan.

The San Carlos City Council on Tuesday will consider asking the city of Belmont to change the way the cities split funding their joint fire service - a proposal made all the more pressing after the failure of a half-cent sales tax measure on Election Day.

Dominique Larose, 14, of Belmont is a freshman at Mercy High School in Burlingame and a ballerina.

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kendall Marsenne Torchia and Dan Kendall were united in marriage Aug.

Fearing they could face the same legal fight waged in San Carlos over a Sarah Palin billboard, Belmont officials are planning an emergency moratorium on all new billboards in the city.

The image of the state's bullet train ripping apart Peninsula communities in the next decade has once again spurred local leaders into action, this time with a planning process usually applied to freeway construction.

The lights are now back on for all but about 230 customers. 9:11 a.m.: Belmont Avenue at Backer Avenue is blocked in both directions this morning after a vehicle slammed into utility poles and overturned.

William Scott Simon, 42, of Belmont took one look at the officers after the January incident and told them, "I have a lot of balls to be walking in here." He was promptly arrested.

William Simon, 42, has been in custody since Jan. 11 when he was arrested in a San Mateo parking lot after getting out of his car and stumbling past two California Highway Patrol officers, said Assistant District Attorney Karen Guidotti.

Authorities on Thursday are asking for the public's help in finding a 21-year-old Southern California man with a mental disability who failed to return to a Belmont motel he was staying at with his parents.

Kindergartners at Cipriani Elementary School took time out from the playground and, as a group, began counting in Mandarin.

With the Nov. 3 election nearing, candidates running for City Council seats across San Mateo County are starting to separate themselves in the race for donations.

The California High Speed Rail Authority's plan to run its trains up the Peninsula along the Caltrain corridor has not exactly been met with great enthusiasm.

Miguel Ongpin got into theater to meet girls. His high school, Junipero Serra in San Mateo, was an all-boys Catholic school, but the campus did co-productions each year with the all-girl campuses at Notre Dame High in Belmont and Mercy High in Burlingame.

Freshman students from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont set up a carnival for the children of migrant farmworkers in the Soledad area last weekend.

South Bay Recycling will operate the new Shoreway Environmental Center - the recycling facility in San Carlos - after two-thirds of the South Bayside Waste Management Authority agreed to the recommendation.

For voters, the choice in the City Council election Nov. 3 is simple: Stick with the status quo, or hand a seat to a newcomer.

The Belmont Public Works Department is providing a limited supply of filled sandbags for residents.

There's more to the college experience than fascinating lectures, frat parties and pricey textbooks.

The Twin Pines Senior & Community Center and the Senior Round Table in Belmont will hold its 2009 Community Resource Faire Oct.