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Santa lights up the holidays

Santa lights up the holidays

Photos by Ellie Van Houtte/Town Crier

Shrieks of joy from local children filled the air as Santa Claus arrived at Community Plaza for Los Altos’ Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony Friday, above. Attendees snap photos of the tree, below, and a yo...

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Schools

Artists talk practicalities during Los Altos High Art Week

Artists talk practicalities during Los Altos High Art Week


Courtesy of Brandon Hong
A semester’s worth of student work is currently on display at Los Altos High School’s library, and photography students are documenting the show – see more of their work at losaltosonline.com.

Alumni retur...

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Community

LACF, with Packard boost, issues $136,400 to nonprofits

The Los Altos Community Foundation completed its second grant-making cycle for the fiscal year, issuing a total of $136,400 to 45 nonprofits that serve Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View.

The project and operational grants benefit the comm...

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Sports

Frosty finish for Lancers:  St. Francis' second-half struggles lead to loss in CCS final

Frosty finish for Lancers: St. Francis' second-half struggles lead to loss in CCS final


Ellie Van Houtte/Town Crier
St. Francis High coach Greg Calcagno consoles senior Alex Andrighetto as he walks off the field carrying the second-place trophy Saturday night. Los Gatos beat the Lancers 31-14, avenging last year’s loss in the CCS Divi...

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Special Sections

Food Briefs

Food Briefs


Ehrlich and Lewis

Strike, the Los Altos-based brewery started by a trio of local beerpreneurs, found a permanent home this winter.

Jenny Lewis, Ben Lewis and Drew Ehrlich founded Strike from a home in Los Altos, graduated to a shared contract brew...

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Business

No signs of slowing down : Los Altos realtor celebrates 89th birthday, plans to keep working

No signs of slowing down : Los Altos realtor celebrates 89th birthday, plans to keep working


Ellie Van Houtte/Town Crier;
Harold Hughes began his career in real estate at age 69. Hughes celebrated his 89th birthday last week.

Coldwell Banker realtor Harold Hughes isn’t letting age slow him down anytime soon.

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People

ANNA MARIA "ROSE" LIMERINOS

Anna Maria "Rose" Limerinos passed away Nov. 30, 2013. a vigil will be held Mon. Dec. 16th at Wiscombe Funeral Home - 116 D. Street, Davis, CA 95616. (530)-758-5500. Funeral Mass Tues, Dec 17th at noon at St. James Catholic Church on 14th and B Stree...

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Travel

SLO pace: San Luis Obispo ranks as nation’s happiest city

SLO pace: San Luis Obispo ranks as nation’s happiest city


boasts a small-town feel but places a big-city emphasis on the arts. Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia.com

For years, my only memory of San Luis Obispo was a couple of overnights at the landmark Madonna Inn, the gaudy pink palace. The guestrooms, which ...

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Comment

Unwrapped gifts make the best presents: The Rockey Road

The radio presets in my car are KDFC, KFOG and KQED. When my children are in the car, they like to scan for their favorite stations. Yesterday, they landed on a station playing holiday music. I quickly saved the station with my No. 4 preset and rea...

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Stepping Out

"Little Women" continues at PA's Lucie Stern Theatre


Tracy Martin/Special to the Town Crier
TheatreWorks’ “Little Women” stars Justin Buchs (as John Brooke) and Sharon Rietkerk (Meg). The musical closes Jan. 4.

The TheatreWorks production of “Little Women” opened last week and is slated to run thr...

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Spiritual Life

Woman on a mission: Littlejohn wages campaign against gendercide

Reggie Littlejohn is a woman on a mission. Her life is an amazing journey from atheist to believer, from litigator to international-rights advocate, from a person with boundless energy to a bedridden patient for five years – then back again to...

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Magazine

Tour of public sculptures in Los Altos

Tour of public sculptures in Los Altos

Ellie Van Houtte/Town Crier
“Space Dance for Peace” (1986), Mircea Paul Goreniuc at Lincoln Park in Los Altos.

Following is a list of Los Altos’ public sculptures, their artists and their dates of installation.


In or near downtown
“Walter Singer ...

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'Sully' lands in Cupertino for Celebrity Forum

Sullenberger

Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, hailed as a hero for crash-landing an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River and sparing the lives of 155 passengers and crew, told a Celebrity Forum audience Oct. 1 that his story is that of “an ordinary person who found himself in extraordinary circumstances.”

After disabled US Airways Flight 1549 landed safely on the water in Manhattan in January 2009, Sullenberger, thrust instantly into the media spotlight, achieved what he jokingly called “Santa Claus status,” with mail arriving at his Danville home marked simply “Hero Pilot.”

Sullenberger said the outpouring of support – letters, e-mails, Facebook fan pages, keys to cities – from around the world was humbling.

“We received thanks from every continent on the planet,” he said.

With the “Miracle on the Hudson” now 18 months in the rearview mirror, Sullenberger has taken time to process what happened and ponder why the event struck such a chord.

He concluded that the fateful landing happened at a time when the world was in the throes of a financial meltdown and “people were actively searching for good news.”

“It was seen as life-affirming – it gave people hope,” he said.

Sullenberger credited his four crewmembers – and first-responders to the crash, who sent ferries and blankets within four minutes of splashdown – and said Flight 1549 is a reminder of what’s at stake when we fly. People tend to forget, he said, how modern an endeavor flying is – the Wright Brothers first took flight only 106 years ago.

“We make it look easy, but it’s not,” he said. “It’s hard. Flying requires skill that rises to the level of mastery.”

It’s not uncommon to be unfamiliar with your crew, Sullenberger said – he and his first officer and three flight attendants met for the first time three days before the crash. And though he believes that as captain “everything, ultimately, is my responsibility,” hearing his fellow crewmembers performing their jobs during the landing inspired confidence in him.

A “realistic optimism” set in, Sullenberger said, a duality of mind – he and his crew could achieve goals while at the same time confronting immediate and dangerous circumstances.

“We never stopped working as a team that day,” he said. “I am very proud of the fact that the crew and I were up to the challenges we faced that day.”

In hindsight, would he do anything differently?

“Given the outcome, I would be reluctant to change anything about that day,” he said.

In the aftermath of the emergency landing, Sullenberger has made it his mission to advocate airline safety and use his newfound celebrity to advance charitable causes.

“I feel an intense obligation to use this situation for good,” he said.

As for the future, Hollywood’s calling. Producers have optioned the movie rights to Sullenberger’s memoir, and the captain laughingly said he expects George Clooney to play him.

Celebrity Forum has scheduled paleontologist Louise Leakey, Ph.D., to speak Oct. 27-29 at Flint Center at De Anza College in Cupertino. For tickets and more information, visit www.celebrityforum.net.

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