Woodside News

A skateboard park will be constructed in the Woodside area with residents' input on how to deal with big crowds and rowdy teens, reps with the county'sA parks department announced.

Around Town , posted by Peter Carpenter, a resident of the Atherton: Lindenwood neighborhood, 3 hours ago In another discussion the issue of consolidation of San Mateo County Fire Agencies was raised.

Wandering into a classroom barely awake and zoning out of consciousness as a teacher starts a lecture may become less frequent in the Sequoia Union High School District as it studies creating a time before which no school can begin.

Last April, residents of Portola Valley and Woodside went out and collected samples to test for sudden oak death , and gave them to scientists from the University of California at Berkeley.

When Leslie Ballinger and her family started raising chickens in 1998, they were pretty much on their own.

Sometime in the coming months, a bronze statue of a slightly larger-than-life mare and foal will rise amid the daffodils on Village Hill in Woodside opposite the Village Pub on Woodside Road.

Last April, residents of Portola Valley and Woodside went out and collected samples to test for sudden oak death , and gave them to scientists from the University of California at Berkeley.

Piles of unwanted phone books littered throughout the Bay Area and the state could soon be reduced under legislation proposed Thursday by state Sen.

What a compelling reason not to vote for the parcel tax! "It's the economy studpid!" Brilliance resides in Atherton.

Following are the highlights of the campaign finance statements filed by the candidates at the San Mateo County Elections Office covering the 2009 calendar year.

In the election for two open seats on the board of the Sequoia Union High School District, the phrase charter school is conspicuously absent from the stated priorities of the six active candidates -- those who give interviews and campaign -- among the eight officially running.

While a plugged-in reader reports that 200 Manzanita down in Woodside "that sold for $13.8mm back in 2000 just sold for $8mm ," according to the Chronicle the key witness in the Galleon investigation sold "her $13 million Atherton mansion" for $9.4 million in May.

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, or your travel plans have you there on November 5, heads up: The Center for Responsible Travel , a nonprofit research organization dedicated to furthering sustainable travel, is auctioning off several top-notch trips.

It truly takes a village to put on "Fiddler on the Roof," the full-blown Broadway musical being staged by the Woodside Community Theatre the first two weekends of November.

Two Bay Area men suffered major injuries after their motorcycles collided in Woodside Sunday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.

I can't help it. The tree columns just keep coming. Last week, I wrote about the horrified reaction of Palo Alto residents after the trees on California Avenue were cut down without any public notice.

Palo Alto Online News Two motorcyclists were severely injured after colliding at Skyline Boulevard and Highway 84 in Woodside early Sunday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Rich Delucchi of Woodside, who was 100 year old on Sept. 14, was honored by members of the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County with a birthday dinner at the Patrol grounds on Sept.

A tiny neighborhood near Woodside High School is petitioning to be included in the Las Lomitas Elementary School District.

A fallen tree that blocked State Highway 84 at state Highway 35 in Woodside for more than four hours Tuesday night was cleared shortly after midnight, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.