For more than 50 years, the De Anza Flea Market has drawn vendors and shoppers throughout the Bay Area, raising money for the community college’s student government and activities. Each month, the market includes about 813 vendor stalls along with an assortment of food trucks and, at its peak, has attracted 15,000 to 20,000 visitors per month.
Read MoreGrand Avenue, home to downtown South San Francisco (South City for short), is equal parts history and transformation. Here, well-preserved historical buildings line the streets, which are dotted with a variety of businesses and eateries reflecting South City’s diverse community.
Read MoreIn the autumn of 1974, the Peninsula was shaken by a horrific crime. Arlis Perry, the 19-year-old wife of a Stanford undergraduate student, was found slain in the university’s historic Memorial Church. A new book takes a deep dive into the case.
Read MoreThe exterior of the three-story, 1916-era home on the 800 block of Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto has all the attributes of a genuine English manor: symmetrical gables, a central oriel and a steep-pitched roof with narrow banks of windows and dormers. Designed by noted Palo Alto architect Charles K. Sumner, whose eclectic work can be found throughout residential neighborhoods in Palo Alto and Stanford, the 25-room estate has retained ...
Read MoreThe three city-owned heritage apricot orchards in Saratoga, Sunnyvale and Los Altos are remnants of a history that has been preserved despite challenges due to climate change and increased development in Silicon Valley.
Read MoreSan Mateo’s CuriOdyssey, the longtime science museum and zoo, is unveiling a new building with bayside views and an interactive exhibit three weeks after reopening from a monthslong closure caused by storm damage.
Read MoreDating back to 1852 and being the second-oldest continually run tavern in California, Alpine Inn and its lore have attracted a wide cast of characters and fans.
Read MoreKeep up a nearly 30-year correspondence with anyone and you'll get to know a lot about them. But for investigative journalist and Palo Alto-based author Geri Spieler, who traded letters for 28 years with would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore, she also discovered the ways in which Moore was unknowable, by her own design — as well as the things she couldn't hide about herself.
Read MoreAfter finding a jar of pickled steelhead from the 1890s, Dr. Richard Lanman of Los Altos set out to discover local wildlife history. Now he and his colleagues have published groundbreaking findings confirming the past existence of local populations of Chinook salmon, American beavers and Tule elk.
Read MoreWith community college courses free for San Mateo County residents this semester, we've compiled our top 20 favorite classes from American Sign Language to zoology.
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