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Palo Alto to shift dispatch center to mobile unit

Palo Alto's dispatch center will be moved from the City Hall basement to the city's state-of-the-art Mobile Emergency Operations Center later this week to accommodate seismic retrofit work -- a move that will force the city to temporarily close a downtown block to traffic.
[Monday, March 12, 2012]

Palo Alto firefighters douse rooftop blaze

A fire that officials say began on the roof caused nearly $30,000 in damages to a home on Georgia Avenue in Palo Alto Saturday afternoon. No one was injured.
[Monday, March 12, 2012]

Family: Caltrain victim lost battle against mental illness

The man struck by a train in Menlo Park Friday morning was Eric Salvatierra, a 39-year-old Palo Alto resident, according to the San Mateo County Coroner's Office. His family released a statement Monday characterizing his death as a lost battle against a mental illness.
[Sunday, March 11, 2012]

Cost of new Mitchell Park Library continues to climb

The new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center is slated to open this fall as scheduled, but the city's concerns over who is responsible for the project's cost overruns are expected to drag on well after the new library is built.
[Friday, March 9, 2012]

Bay Area looks to cash in on high-speed-rail funds

Peninsula cities and transportation officials see California's proposed high-speed rail system as both a looming threat and a golden opportunity -- a project that could both burden the area with unwanted noise, new barriers and property seizures and provide it with the funds for long-coveted transportation improvement.
[Friday, March 9, 2012]

Palo Alto committee backs trash-rate increase

For Palo Alto residents, garbage bins and trash rates have long enjoyed a simple and direct correlation -- the smaller the can, the lower the rate. That system, however, is about to change.
[Wednesday, March 7, 2012]

Palo Alto looks to add playing fields to golf course

Palo Alto's golf course would be dramatically redrawn and reduced by more than 10 acres to make way for new athletic fields under a reconfiguration plan that a City Council committee endorsed Tuesday evening.
[Tuesday, March 6, 2012]

Retired officers top Palo Alto's list of earners

As some of Palo Alto's longest serving police officers and firefighters head for retirement in the face of benefit reductions, some are cashing in on years' worth of unused vacation, holiday and sick pay -- factors that in some instances have caused their overall compensation to more than double. ==B Related material:== • [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1331139371.pdf View 2011 Palo Alto city employee salaries (those earning at least $51,000)] (PDF)
[Wednesday, March 7, 2012]

Palo Alto to take fresh look at CPI's toxic chemicals

A wave of concerns from Barron Park residents has prompted Palo Alto officials to take a fresh look at the toxic chemicals at Communication and Power Industries, a company whose Stanford Research Park facility stands right next to the residential neighborhood. ==B Related story:== • [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=12503 City considers phasing out hazardous-materials plant]
[Tuesday, March 6, 2012]

Downtown plan could give TheatreWorks a home

In its roughly four decades on the Peninsula, TheatreWorks has piled up raving reviews and theater awards, but one prize has continuously eluded the theater company -- a permanent home. That, however, can soon change.
[Monday, March 5, 2012]

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