Foster City News

A few weeks before he died, Harry Thalheimer organized an 87th birthday party for himself.

It doesn't take a visionary to stomp his foot and declare, "No way, pal - it's my way or the highway." But that seems to be the illogical posture being considered these days by some members of the Menlo Park City Council.

The Foster City Council is set to decide whether to approve the final environmental impact report for the Chess-Hatch Master Plan in a public hearing tonight.

Officials warned Wednesday that the bridge linking the California cities of San Francisco and Oakland will likely remain closed Thursday morning, promising more delays for Bay Area commuters.

It was a Caltrans hope that just didn't float. Speaking at a hastily arraigned late-evening press conference Thursday, Caltrans officials said, should all repairs and testing be completed ahead of Friday morning, there was a slight chance the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge could go into service in time for the Friday morning commute.

A noise dispute between martial arts studio owner Herb Perez and nearby homeowners has led the city to look into a potential change to the city's noise ordinance.

The indefinite closure of a major artery linking the California cities of San Francisco and Oakland snarled traffic Wednesday and left commuters frustrated.

Carlos Juan, Antonio J. Rulln, Jos L. Prez, and Clara I. Berrocal Author affiliations: Saniconsult Ibrica SL, Palma de Mallorca, Spain ; Instituto Universitario de Investigacin en Ciencias de la Salud, Palma de Mallorca ; Hospital Son Dureta.

THEY CALL IT the SmartMeter. It's a new, computerized device intended to help consumers - not to mention PG&E - figure out their energy use anytime they like.

Mary Yonkers, right, with a bike trail friend. Photo courtesy Barry Grossman. Mary Yonkers, 58, of San Mateo, was killed by a truck driver while riding her bicycle to work on Shorewood Road in Redwood City last week.

Police announced they have made an arrest in last week's murder of Chi-lu "Tony" Chen.

Foster City, Calif.-basd data center services provider Equinix has entered into an agreement to acquire Switch & Data Facilities Company in a transaction valued at approximately $689 million in cash and stock, both companies said in a joint announcement today.

They feel like failures. Disillusioned, like a runner who trips out of the starting gate.

Do you know where the "2009 Halloween Safe-Street," in your community, is located? For example, Foster City, CA, is having their safe-street on Blythe, Bainbridge, and Decatur Streets: enter via Farragut Park.

San Mateo-Foster City School District leaders are looking at building affordable housing for teachers and staff after survey results show that many employees, particularly those who rent, favor such a development.

Candidates for the San Mateo-Foster City School District board have weighed in on a proposed new campus to help ease an enrollment surge, the possible renewal of a parcel tax to bolster depleted revenues and other concerns in the run-up to the Nov.

A 45-year-old man fatally shot at a supermarket in Desert Hot Springs had recently moved to the Coachella Valley to work at a hotel in the city, police said Monday.

Peninsula school districts continue to contend with budget uncertainties, and some of the districts are considering renewing parcel taxes set to expire in the near future.

South Bay Recycling, a California-based firm, has received approval needed from the South Bayside Waste Management Authority's member agencies on its operations agreement as the future operator of the SBWMA's Shoreway Environmental Center.

IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing chips.