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View MoreStanford volunteers jar 600 apricot jars for scholarships
More than 80 volunteers produced over 600 jars of Blenheim apricot jam at Stanford's annual Jam Camp on Aug. 4, continuing a 50-year tradition that funds student scholarships through the independent Stanford Parents' Club nonprofit.
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View MorePalo Alto teen wins national singing title among 16,800 entrants
Palo Alto's Maira Srivastava, 16, won first place in the Commercial Music Treble Voice division at the 2026 National Student Auditions, besting approximately 16,800 participants in a competition held in San Antonio in early July.
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View MoreStanford Summer Symphony closes season with rare Mendelssohn work
The Stanford Summer Symphony Orchestra and Summer Chorus closed their 2026 season with two performances of Mendelssohn's rarely heard "Lobgesang" at Bing Concert Hall on July 31 and Aug. 1, featuring professional opera soloists and conductor Paul Phillips returning from sabbatical.
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View MoreChang-rae Lee brings new novel to Kepler's in Menlo Park
Stanford writing professor Chang-rae Lee will discuss his new novel "A Tender Age" at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park on Friday, Aug. 21, headlining a packed August calendar at the 71-year-old Peninsula bookstore.
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View MorePAPD to host National Night Out gathering at Bol Park on Aug. 4
The Palo Alto Police Department will host its annual National Night Out event at Bol Park on Tuesday, August 4, from 5 to 8 p.m., offering residents a chance to meet officers, explore emergency vehicles, and register their own neighborhood block parties.
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View MorePalo Alto's weekend lineup: A jazz legend tribute and a free Americana show
Americana artist Miko Marks plays a free outdoor show at Mitchell Park Bowl on Sunday, July 26, while pianist Michael Wolff performs a Latin jazz tribute to Cal Tjader at Meyhouse Palo Alto on Saturday, July 25.
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View MoreFood drive at Berman's Palo Alto office nets 2,000 pounds for local pantries
Assemblymember Marc Berman's district office on Colorado Avenue collected more than 2,000 pounds of food donations during a mid-July drive, delivering them to two local pantries as federal SNAP cuts threaten benefits for tens of thousands of residents across Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
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View MoreAda's Cafe hosts Shanghai youth orchestra at Los Altos Community Center on Friday
Palo Alto nonprofit Ada's Cafe hosts the Shanghai City Youth Symphony Orchestra, 30 of whose members have autism, for a $30 community event Friday, July 24, at the Los Altos Community Center — the site of Ada's Cafe's planned second location opening fall 2026.
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View MoreDog missing since Fourth of July rescued from Bay near Cooley Landing
A small dog missing since July 4 was rescued from the San Francisco Bay near Cooley Landing Park on July 16 after a multi-agency effort involving Menlo Park firefighters, an airboat, and a drone, then reunited with its owners through the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA.
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View MoreVolunteers have kept Foothill College's free stargazing nights alive for nearly 50 years
The Peninsula Astronomical Society, a nonprofit founded in 1949, runs free public stargazing every clear Friday night and Saturday morning at Foothill College's observatory in Los Altos Hills, about five miles from downtown Palo Alto.
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View MoreNewsom signs Palo Alto assemblymember's bill making free suicide prevention training permanent statewide
Gov. Newsom signed Assemblymember Marc Berman's AB 2003 on Wednesday, July 15, permanently establishing free online suicide prevention training for all California students, teachers, and families, with the training platform expected to launch in spring 2027.
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View MoreCalifornia's new heat-wave shutoff protections don't cover Palo Alto customers
California's CPUC voted 4-0 on Friday, July 17, to lower the heat-wave utility shutoff threshold from 100°F to 90°F, but Palo Alto's municipal utility falls outside CPUC jurisdiction and has no temperature-based disconnection protections in its own rules.
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