San Carlos, CA|News|
Transit Village Up Close and Personal
A site tour of the planned residential/retail/office development is scheduled for Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.

Joan has written for several local news organizations, including the Belmont City News and the Palo Alto Daily News, where she was advertorial editor and columnist for nine years. She is active in a variety of community service organizations: Peninsula Humane Society, Companions for the Soul, and Samaritan House. Joan is married to Eric, a wireless product specialist for Cisco; they have two sons in college, a loyal Labrador retriever and two curious cats.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1959, I was raised in Columbus, OH, and attended Ohio University in Athens, where I received a bachelor's degree in journalism. I've been living in the Bay Area for 20 years and am an avid runner, tennis player and SF Giants freak.
A site tour of the planned residential/retail/office development is scheduled for Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission will provide the majority of funding for the improvements to OCR.
Five-year auto burglary stats were provided by the Belmont Police Department.
Should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California, clerks in Bay Area county courthouses are readying to perform weddings.
Crossing guard volunteers LuAnn and Bill McGuigan will see their fifth and final child graduate from Heather Elementary School this week. The McGuigans have been at Heather for 22 years.
Vera Moats Forcellini died just short of her 100th birthday. Her late husband, Bob Forcellini, built the family home in the Belmont hills. The couple was active in the Carlmont Methodist Church.