18+ hour, 21+ min ago   (391+ words) When asked why she wanted to design video games, 15-year-old… Heat pump on a residential home. Los Altos has the highest number of electric household appliances installed per 1,000 housing units among the 13 cities that are part of Silicon Valley Clean…...

23+ hour, 56+ min ago   (563+ words) Los Altos Mayor Sally Meadows had a full agenda at the Sept.8 City Council meeting, including a staff report on the impacts to the city should the citizens’ initiative Measure D pass in November. City staff at the Sept. 8 Los…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (97+ words) Los Altos Town Crier All-Inclusive Print + Digital Your weekly print newspaper delivered, and more √ Weekly Print Edition delivered to your mailbox √ Unlimited access on all devices √ E-Edition and Newsletters When you don't want the printed newspaper â…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (454+ words) Los Altos celebrates its 75th birthday next year. Back in 1957, through a direct assessment, business owners enabled the new city to build surface parking plazas as an intentional feature of downtown. Senator Alan Cranston praised the design as offering “close proximity…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (461+ words) The ten downtown Los Altos parking plazas. The California Department of Housing and Community Development Aug. 28 issued a letter to the city of Los Altos stating the city will be required to amend its housing element should Measure D pass…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (261+ words) Los Altos Town Crier I am writing as a private resident, not in any official capacity, to urge a “No” vote on Measure D.If Measure D passes, it will cost Los Altos taxpayers millions of dollars…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (393+ words) The affordable units provide another troubling example. The four affordable units are approximately 500-square-foot studios. Yet the smallest market-rate units are two bedrooms. Whatever the legal merits of that arrangement, it raises an obvious question about whether this is the…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (578+ words) Mussels find their way to other waters on boat propellers. Labor Day is one of the most popular occasions to hit the water for late summer fun. However, the presence of invasive golden mussels in California waters means certain boating…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (326+ words) A statement put out by the Los Altos Village Association (Town Crier, Aug. 12 – “Vast asphalt won’t save downtown businesses, vibrancy will,') referred to our downtown parking plazas as “vast asphalt.” That is a gross misrepresentation....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (226+ words) All Los Altos voters should be aware of an initiative that will be on our ballot in November. Deceptively called the “Downtown Parking Plazas Initiative,” it is aimed at stopping any needed improvements, including new public restrooms, in…...