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Thirty-five years! That’s three and a half decades of neighbors showing up for neighbors across Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View. Grab your neighbor, a cold draft beer from Laughing Monk(opens in new tab), a pretzel from Little Sky Bakery(opens in new tab), and your dancing shoes, because we’re toasting to that legacy at Oktoberfest…

Right now, the Bay Area is enjoying an unusually cool stretch of weather. Forecasters expect temperatures to climb in the coming weeks, and with that heat comes the return of wildfire risk across our communities. The good news is that none of us have to face it alone. The best time to prepare for a…

Mountain View, Calif., Jan. 28, 2026 — The City of Mountain View has approved a $1 million investment to launch a new affordable housing fund in partnership with the Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation (LAMVCF), a locally rooted nonprofit dedicated to turning community compassion into action. The partnership reflects a shared commitment to ensuring…

Mountain View faces a critical loss of socioeconomic diversity driven by real estate speculation. Since 2012, developers have demolished nearly 1,000 rent-protected units, forcing working and immigrant families (many of them essential workers) to move to the outskirts. Social Impact: Displacement fractures families, triples commute times, and breaks access to schools and support networks. Extreme…

This year, neighbors put $800,000 behind local students. Some of them, for years to come. Every spring, something quietly happens in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and Mountain View. Organizations who have been showing up for this community for decades: Rotarians, Kiwanians, MV Chamber leaders, MVLA Scholars, all pull up chairs around the same table.…

Earlier this month, I stood in a field at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills watching a piglet nibbling on a sweet potato. It was an unremarkable moment except that two days earlier, I had seen that very sweet potato, or at least its kin, stacked in the produce section of Community Services Agency’s (CSA)…