San Mateo County Archives

Start the new year with the Peninsula’s best personal growth deal: Free college classes and a deeply discounted gym membership

With 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.

‘People come here expecting things to stay the same’: Step back in time for breakfast at Millbrae Pancake House

With the average staffer sticking around for 20 years and a 64-year-old pancake recipe, it’s easy to see why Millbrae Pancake House is a sort of time capsule.

Facing climate change, Peninsula environmental groups brace for new battles

Four local environmental organizations are taking on a new threat: climate change, working to evolve along with the threats that could damage the environments they worked so hard to save.

The mysterious case of the SF Peninsula’s poop-polluted beaches

Beach pollution on the San Francisco Peninsula has worsened for years, perplexing local surfers, scientists and officials.

‘We have a diet that is literally killing us.’ Why Frances Moore Lappé’s groundbreaking ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ is more relevant than ever

Back in 1971, Frances Moore Lappé broke ground as an early advocate of plant-based eating in her first book, “Diet for a Small Planet.” More than 50 years later and with an updated introduction, Lappé’s book is more relevant than ever, highlighting the environmental and human costs of meat-heavy and highly processed diets.