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News

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

Stuff your cookies with seasonal treats

Stuff your cookies with seasonal treats


Eliza Ridgeway/Town Crier
Stuff cookies with nuts and fruit, above, and top with a sprinkle of flaked salt to create a hearty holiday treat.

Chock-full of nuts and fruit, my go-to holiday cookies (which I cook all year round) are hard to mess ...

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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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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 returned to Los Altos High School for the annual Art Week last week to describe the nuts and bolts of making a living while making art.

An interior designer talked business and industry, an engineer for the city of Palo Alto described the engineering behind design work and a visual-effects artist brought a burst of Hollywood to the stage in Eagle Theater. The school’s art teachers invited the guests to focus on real-life applications for art as part of a weeklong event examining art in the real world.

Painter Jacqueline Norheim, a Los Altos High alumna, described the difficulties of balancing the need to make a living with a love for working in the world of fine art and described frankly how she hasn’t yet made the two completely overlap.

Supported by training in graphic design, Norheim designs logos, campaigns and motion graphics for advertising agencies and companies. She also creates vast experimental oil paintings and has exhibited around the United States.

“I do graphic design for money and having a job and that kind of thing, and I do fine art on the side,” she told students. “I think if you’re really dedicated to what you’re making, you just kind of find a way.”

Throughout the week, a community art installation explored the social uses for art and visual thinking. For “Thoughts, Reflections and Healing,” the libraryconference room’s walls became a patchwork of papers, using images, shapes and words to give visual form to the question of “injuries that need healing.” Participants are invited to collaborate on giving thoughts form and adding elements to the walls.

The show is a home for “whatever’s on their mind – worries and concerns – that they can’t talk about with other people,” Los Altos High art teacher Christine An explained.

“The visual communication, with words and images, is another layer of communication,” she said.

The installation aims to work its art on viewers, laying out a goal in its notes: “The space is transformed into a place of personal reflection of the participants. It prompts a new perspective of thought. It is this change in thoughts that triggers healing.”

Across the hallway, the semester’s student art, more than 500 recent works, are on exhibition.

Both shows are on display in the school’s library 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday.

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