Belmont News

Students from Sunnybrae Elementary School in San Mateo launched a drive helping a United Nation's organization that champions children's rights.

A truck passes through the San Mateo Bridge toll booth in Hayward, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov.

Belmont, CA's Sezmi has raised $25M in third-round funding. Sezmi is a set-top box manufacturer whose personalized service combines live TV, video-on-demand services, and Internet video.

Carlmont High School science teacher Casey O'Hara said goodbye to his students and his warm California classroom and boarded a plane today bound for the South Pole.

Students in the Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary School District could start learning to speak a foreign language fluently very early on.

Belmont city staff has been tinkering with its sign ordinance for months and will ask its City Council to pass an urgency ordinance tonight to impose a moratorium on new billboard structures.

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.