Arts Los Altos seeks submissions for new public mural downtown
Courtesy of Maddy McBirney
Artist Martha Sakellariou, right, confers on the installation of a “sneak peek” announcement of her new downtown mural.
A new, large-scale mural, titled “200 Main Street [an inventory of time and place],” will grace downtown Los Altos sometime in the spring. The project, commissioned by the nonprofit Arts Los Altos, is funded by the Rotary Club of Los Altos.
The outdoor mural – located on the large exterior wall on Third Street, on the side of Satura Cakes – will incorporate quintessentially Los Altos themes and iconography to explore what it has been like to live at the crossroads of the area’s transformation from the rural Valley of Heart’s Delight into Silicon Valley.
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Museum reopens with exhibition on wildflowers and climate change Written by Special to the Town Crier
The Los Altos History Museum debuted “Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change” last week, a traveling exhibition that runs through July 11. The display marks the reopening of the museum’s indoor gallery at its new reduced hours – noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
The museum opened briefly last summer but closed in November when Santa Clara County returned to the purple tier in its COVID-19 framework. Now, with the go-ahead from the county, the museum reopened its main gallery for the current exhibition, while the upper gallery featuring a train diorama and the J. Gilbert Smith House remain closed.
Dogs are set to be allowed off-leash in Los Altos soon, under a pilot program.
After more than a decade of discussion, debate and research, Los Altos pet owners may finally have a place to let their dogs out.
The city council approved the implementation of an off-leash pilot program at Hillview Baseball Field at its meeting Tuesday (Nov. 10), with the start date and length of the trial period to be determined.
Although staff had also recommended approving an off-leash hours program at Heritage Oaks Park, the council opted to operate the pilot program solely at Hillview, after hearing from neighbors living next to the park who voiced opposition.
Historian’s talk, book highlight local region’s Black pioneers
Jan Batiste Adkins
Capitalized, the phrase “Black Lives Matter” is a political statement. Lower case, “Black lives matter” is a passion, especially to local historian, lecturer and author Jan Batiste Adkins.
Adkins discussed her research in a webinar titled “The History of African Americans in Santa Clara County, 1780 to Present,” hosted by the Los Altos History Museum Feb. 24.
The virtual event coincided with Black History Month. According to the history museum’s collections strategist Dianne Shen, the webinar “supports a new initiative to document the history of race, immigration and civil rights of the local region.” Santa Clara County is one of the most multicultural and multiracial regions in the U.S.