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View MorePalo Alto Commons seniors' art show closes Sunday
Residents of Palo Alto Commons are showing paintings, quilts, photography and other artwork at the Palo Alto Art Center through Sept. 1, with a closing reception Sunday, Aug. 30.
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View MoreBowes Library's new book showcase closes Friday, Sept. 4
Stanford's Summer Escape exhibition at the Bowes Art & Architecture Library showcases newly acquired artist's books, photobooks and pop-up books through Friday, Sept. 4, with free admission for visitors who register with a government ID.
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View MoreSee Allen Ginsberg's handwritten 'Howl' drafts at Stanford
Stanford University Libraries' first-ever Allen Ginsberg exhibition displays notebooks, manuscripts and photographs from the poet's 1,350-linear-foot archive through Sept. 5 at Cecil H. Green Library on campus.
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View MorePalo Alto couple rallies earthquake aid for Venezuela
Palo Alto resident Mauricio Sepulveda and his wife are organizing recurring shipments of first aid kits, baby food and pharmaceuticals to Venezuela after the June 24 earthquakes, drawing what Sepulveda described as an overwhelming response from the local community.
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View MorePalo Alto's $7M living levee nears completion at Baylands
Palo Alto will host a public celebration on Sept. 10 marking the completion of its $7 million Horizontal Levee Pilot Project at the Baylands, the first living levee hydrologically connected to San Francisco Bay.
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View MoreCounty's 40-year tree plan highlights Palo Alto students' work
Santa Clara County's proposed 40-year Urban Forest Master Plan, which features Palo Alto High School students' tree-planting work in the Hoover Park neighborhood, went before a county committee Thursday and now heads to the Board of Supervisors.
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View MoreMeditation, biking, murals round out Palo Alto's Wellness Month
Palo Alto's Thursday Live concert series returns to car-free California Avenue on Aug. 27 with a Wellness and End-of-Summer celebration, the fourth installment in a monthly series that has helped drive foot traffic and falling vacancy rates on the corridor.
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View MorePalo Alto survey seeks input amid budget shortfall
Palo Alto's 2026 Annual Community Survey launched Aug. 13 with mailed invitations and opens citywide online Sept. 15, giving residents a direct channel to shape City Council priorities amid an $8 million sales tax shortfall and 13.4% University Avenue vacancy rate.
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View MoreEast Palo Alto group keeps 33 migrant kids' lawyers
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto continues representing 33 unaccompanied migrant children after its federal contract expired July 31, even as the Trump administration redirected $158 million to a Utah-based group with no child representation experience.
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View MoreStanford's free public art collection tops 80 works
A 2026 replication of Malaquias Montoya's 52-foot mural at El Centro Chicano y Latino is the newest addition to Stanford's 80-plus-piece public art collection, all free and open year-round, with five themed self-guided tours available through the Stanford Mobile app.
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View More$7M living levee rises at Palo Alto Baylands
A $7 million horizontal levee pilot at the Palo Alto Baylands uses 35-plus native plant species to break waves, filter nitrogen from treated wastewater and restore endangered-species habitat along 500 feet of shoreline.
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View MoreHans Andersen, Stanford chemistry pioneer, dies at 84
Hans Andersen, a pioneering theoretical chemist who spent nearly six decades at Stanford developing computer simulation methods now foundational to drug development and materials science, died July 4 at age 84.
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