Mills-Peninsula Health Services is withholding its support for a proposed downtown improvement district unless its fees are slashed by two-thirds.The Downtown San Mateo Association’s proposed property-based improvement district would charge downtown property owners for street cleaning, trash gathering, landscaping, and economic development.But there’s a hang-up.
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By:
Bonta Hill
09/01/11 4:00 AM
The 2010 season was a roller coaster ride for the College of San Mateo Bulldogs — one that was fun, had fans sick to their stomach and feeling better after it was all said and done.
CSM was sitting at 6-0, primed to make a return trip to the California State Championship.
Click on the picture for the Bulldogs' schedule.
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The goon who punched a teenager in San Mateo for not paying a street tax — an injury that had the victim’s jaw wired shut for eight weeks — is facing up to five years in prison.Donesh Daniel Nickravesh, 23, pleaded no contest Monday to two assault charges stemming from the mindless April 2 attack on three former Aragon High School students.
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The Downtown San Mateo Association wants property owners to pay for taking downtown maintenance into their own hands.To prepare for what association Director Rob Edwards says is a $10 million rollback of redevelopment-funded services — from police foot patrols and public works to trash pickup and economic development — he and some property and business owners are circulating a petition to create a property-based improvement district.
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A registered sex offender is facing charges of possesing a cache of hild pornography on a computer at his San Mateo home.
Police arrested a registered sex offender Monday after probation officers allegedly found a cache of child pornography on a computer at his San Mateo home.
Kent Ping Lin, 25, was arrested at his home in the 2600 block of Sugarloaf Drive at about 10:20 p.m. Monday, according to the San Mateo Police Department.
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San Mateo firefighters on Monday helped police detectives track down two men suspected of robbing a gas station at gunpoint, according to the police department.Officers responded to reports of an armed robbery at a 76 gas station at 28th Avenue and El Camino Real at about 10 a.m., according to San Mateo police spokesman Sgt. David Norris.
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A prominent San Mateo child psychiatrist accused of molesting dozens of young patients will be sent to a mental hospital — an ending prosecutors called a “significant disappointment.”William Ayres, 79, faced life in prison after being charged four years ago with nine counts of performing lewd acts on seven boys during counseling sessions between 1991 and 1996.
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The long-running case of a prominent San Mateo child psychiatrist accused of molesting young patients could be resolved in court today, prosecutors said.William Ayres, 79, was once president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. But in 2007, the doctor was charged with nine counts of performing lewd acts on seven boys during counseling sessions that took place between 1991 and 1996.
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The team of 18 boys from San Mateo’s Little League Majors are back on home turf after a 10-day trip to the sister city of Toyonaka, Japan.
The boys were able to play some baseball during the trip, facing their counterparts in six games and going 3-3 in the series.
“They throw a lot of good sliders and curveballs,” said 11-year-old Alexander Rodrick.
But winning or losing was not important, he said.
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A San Carlos woman allegedly threatened to commit suicide on the Caltrain tracks Tuesday, several days after stabbing her boyfriend’s pet lizard to death in a jealous rage.Shawn Kim Apour, 37, appeared in a Redwood City courtroom Wednesday on seven felony and four misdemeanor charges related to the massive weeklong meltdown.
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