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Community
The San Mateo Main Library celebrates its 20th anniversary with a free community event on Saturday, Aug. 29, featuring taiko drumming, cultural performances, a new coffee shop opening, and City Librarian Rukshana Singh leading the system she grew up using.
Community
The San Mateo Main Library celebrates its 20th anniversary with a free community event on Saturday, Aug. 29, featuring taiko drumming, cultural performances, a new coffee shop opening, and City Librarian Rukshana Singh leading the system she grew up using.
Community
The San Mateo Main Library celebrates its 20th anniversary with a free community event on Saturday, Aug. 29, featuring taiko drumming, cultural performances, a new coffee shop opening, and City Librarian Rukshana Singh leading the system she grew up using.
Community
San Mateo's Generation Voter program invites residents of all ages to design official "I Voted" stickers for the Nov. 3 election, with entries due Sept. 30 and winners chosen across five age groups.
Community
The City of San Mateo will host free outdoor movie screenings every Friday in September at four different parks, starting with Zootopia 2 at Central Park on Sept. 4, with games and crafts beginning at 6 p.m.
Community
Boba Bless at 16 E. 3rd Ave. in downtown San Mateo will donate 25% of qualifying purchases to Aragon High School's Class of 2029 on Thursday, Aug. 27, when customers use promo code 2029.
Community
San Mateo County Libraries will release limited-edition Laufey Book Club library cards at all 13 branches and the Bookmobile starting Sunday, Aug. 23, at 10 a.m., available first-come, first-served while supplies last.
Community
The six-mile Skyline Watershed Ridge Trail opens Monday, Aug. 24, on SFPUC land near Highway 92, giving San Mateo County residents their first self-guided access to a stretch of the Peninsula Watershed with free permits available online.
Community
San Mateo County received the inaugural Government Partner Volunteer of the Year Award at the Special Olympics Northern California Summer Games on Aug. 18, recognizing the county's $750,000 Measure K investment in expanding programs for athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Community
San Mateo County Parks closed several sections of Junipero Serra Park on Monday, Aug. 17, for a $1.19 million SFPUC storm drain project and storm damage repairs, with additional roadway closures extending through early November.
Community
San Mateo opens a multilingual survey and schedules two final workshops (Aug. 27 in person, Sept. 1 on Zoom) for residents to shape the MLK Jr. Community Center renovation before a preferred design moves forward.
Community
San Mateo County Parks reopened most trails at Sam McDonald Park and Pescadero Creek Park on Aug. 10 after months of CAL FIRE-funded forest health work, though several trail sections and camps remain closed as crews continue.
Community
Don Horsley County Park at Tunitas Creek Beach, a $24 million project on Highway 1 between Half Moon Bay and Pescadero, opens Monday, Aug. 17, giving San Mateo County its first new park in more than a decade and its first new public beach since 1969.
Community
The City of San Mateo and the San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce are bringing back September Nights on B Street, a free two-night block party on Sept. 10 and Sept. 17 featuring live music, food and family activities on the downtown pedestrian mall.
Community
Cranes will lift historic horse-drawn carriages from San Mateo Peninsula estates into the San Mateo County History Museum's new Taube Family Carriage House on Monday, Aug. 17, with a grand opening celebration set for Saturday, Nov. 7.
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