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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
The City of San Mateo has published the complete Movies in the Park schedule for September 2026, with four free Friday-night screenings of recent blockbusters at four different neighborhood parks starting Friday, Sept. 4.
Community
The Redwood Symphony performs the Bay Area premiere of Timo Andres' reimagined Mozart Piano Concerto No. 26 at Cañada College Main Theatre on Saturday, July 25, alongside works by Prokofiev and Beethoven.
Community
San Mateo's Central Park playground and picnic areas are closed for 18 to 24 months of construction under the city's Reimagined Central Park Playground project, which began in June 2025 and will deliver new play structures, a restroom building, walkways, and lighting.
Community
San Mateo unveiled a permanent "Jerry Hill Street" sign on O'Farrell Street near City Hall on Friday, July 17, and declared "Jerry Hill Day" to honor the former state senator's 29 years of continuous elected service.
Community
San Mateo Medical Center distributed 230 free literacy kits containing books, magnets, and activity guides to pre-K and kindergarten patients at five county clinics this summer, aiming to prevent the reading loss that hits low-income children hardest during school breaks.
Community
Peninsula Open Space Trust's $10 million purchase of the 238-acre San Gregorio Ranch will add more than half a mile of coastline to San Gregorio State Beach, with public access beginning Wednesday, July 29.
Community
San Mateo residents have a packed week of community events from July 16-20, including the Central Park Music Series featuring salsa band Julio Bravo y Su Orquesta Salsabor, the weekly Downtown Farmers' Market, a folk/pop concert, and the Head West Marketplace on B Street.
Community
A young pig named Peter Porker is available for adoption at Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA in San Mateo County after arriving as a healthy, friendly stray at the open-admission shelter.
Community
Samaritan House will give away free backpacks to San Mateo County students on Saturday, Aug. 1, at the San Mateo Event Center, but families must register by calling (650) 347-3648 before the Friday, July 24, deadline.
Community
San Mateo's summer schedule is packed with free outdoor events including the Central Park Music Series, two weekly farmers' markets, a citywide yard sale July 25–26, and Coyote Point Summerfest on August 15, plus updates on two playground construction projects.
Community
Former leaders of San Mateo's Peninsula Lively Arts, which closed June 30 after nearly 60 years, have launched Peninsula Ballet Arts in the same Concar Drive studio with about 200 students already enrolled.
Community
San Mateo County's 22nd annual Disaster Preparedness Day on Saturday, Aug. 1, offers free hands-on emergency training, multilingual workshops, and live demonstrations at the San Mateo County Event Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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