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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
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.
Community
San Mateo County held its first Purple Heart Day flag-raising ceremony Friday at County Center in Redwood City, with the Sheriff's Office Honor Guard presenting colors and a Board of Supervisors proclamation expected Aug. 11.
Community
B Street & Vine in downtown San Mateo hosts free live jazz every weekend evening from 6 to 9 p.m., offering residents a no-cover night out on the pedestrian corridor that has seen foot traffic jump 20% in the past year.
Community
The San Mateo Public Library is offering free drop-in storytimes and children's programs at King Park, the Main Library, and the Hillsdale Branch throughout August 2026, led by five named librarians, with bilingual programming and a tablet lending option for families.
Community
NAMI San Mateo County appointed Stanford IT project manager and STEM education founder Hee-Yeon Woo to its board of directors on July 29, making her the third new board member the mental health nonprofit has added in 2026.
Community
San Mateo County Parks opens a phone-only reservation window on Monday, August 31 for naturalist-led group tidepool tours at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, with schools serving low-income students getting first priority.
Community
Martin Billings, a San Mateo High School Athletics Hall of Fame inductee who coached Menlo-Atherton to its first CCS football championship in 2002, was diagnosed with ALS in 2024 and is now the subject of a GoFundMe campaign to support his family.
Community
Nine Peninsula students completed the first Summer Leadership Internship Program, a partnership between the API Foundation of San Mateo County and Casa Círculo Cultural that paired youth with county supervisors, the incoming schools superintendent, and city officials over six Saturdays of civic and professional training.
Community
The 22nd annual San Mateo County Disaster Preparedness Day brings free hands-only CPR training, Stop the Bleed instruction, go-bag packing guidance, a CAL FIRE emergency cooking demo, and appearances by Smokey Bear and Captain Cal to the San Mateo Event Center on Saturday, August 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Community
Animal keeper Michelle Gibes trains reptiles at CuriOdyssey in San Mateo to become public ambassadors, assessing each animal's temperament and using gradual desensitization before they meet visitors at the Coyote Point museum.
Community
The City of San Mateo is accepting applications through Wednesday, Aug. 5, for its free 2026 City Services Academy, a 12-week Wednesday-evening program giving residents and workers aged 16 and older access to city departments and leaders.
Community
San Mateo's annual Citywide Yard Sale runs Saturday, July 25, and Sunday, July 26, with seller registration closing Friday, July 24; the city-organized event supports Zero Waste goals and features a live map of participating addresses.
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