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5 Time to read: about 2 minutes Pedestrians and a car make their way up Valparaiso Hill, where a roadside memorial has been set up in remembrance of a teenager who died from injuries in a car crash at the location in January. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Menlo Park's Valparaiso Hill is notoriously treacherous. Nicknamed Valpo Hill, the 0.2-mile stretch of curved road between Hallmark Circle at the top and Altschul Avenue at the bottom in the city's Sharon Heights neighborhood is steep. One very rough calculation put the hill at about a 14% grade – one reason it draws walkers seeking a cardio ...

The Menlo Park City Council met Saturday for its annual goal-setting meeting, ironing out its top priorities for the year ahead and letting the community air its grievances and recommend which new priorities should be adopted.

Updated: Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 11:01 am Wynne Lee, a Menlo Park 14-year-old who was reported missing on Jan. 11, was found by Detective Barker of the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, according to a Jan. 18 announcement on Twitter from the Sheriff's Office. Former Menlo Park City Council member Kirsten Keith announced the evening of Jan. 20 that she planned to step down from her seat on the board of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency. During the council's reorganization meeting on Dec. 15, when council members pick which boards and committees they plan to represent, council membe...

Site coordinator German Pech, who is a Belle Haven resident, said Sunday that he lives around the block from the testing site and is a youth church leader at Cummings Park Church. His niece, Sara Bautista, was also volunteering, and helped to provide bilingual instructions on how to administer the tests. Another volunteer from the neighborhood, Brigith Babb, operated station guiding people through the testing process. "It's a good experience for me ... helping in the community," she said. Estelle Dufour, 12, self-administers a swab alongside her family at a COVID-19 test site in Belle Haven o...