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.
Masterworks Chorale and Ragazzi Boys Chorus will team up for an uplifting spring concert this weekend at the Carlmont High School Performing Arts Center. 16 members of the chorus are from Belmont and San Carlos.
Second Harvest needs $300,000 to provide meals to struggling families..
Starting today, and continuing through March 22, expect lane closures and delays along El Camino Real in Belmont as Caltrans installs an Intelligent Transportation System.
The author, Daniel Wang, is a sophomore at Carlmont High School.
"As I walk around downtown San Carlos, I see way more crushed cigarette butts on the sidewalks and in the gutter than I do those aforementioned evil plastic bags." Chuck Gillooley
Domenico Winery will host a St. Patrick's Day wine barrel tasting party Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Butchers at the San Carlos market have been curing their own Irish specialty meat for decades.
Patrick Higgins ran out of Sneakers on March 1 without paying his tab.
Masterworks Chorale will perform a concert dedicated to the children of Newtown. "Mass for the Children" will be held at the Carlmont Performing Arts Center March 23-24. Ten members of the chorale group are Belmont residents.
Each week Patch will bring you Belmont's highest priced home sale. This week it was a home on Hillcrest Drive.
Improvements to the San Carlos project will be discussed Monday night.
Notre Dame High School students participated in "Sober Graduation," a simulated DUI crash designed to raise the awareness to the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or other controlled substances.
The author, Jeffrey Selman, encourages the community to help the school district in constructive, positive ways.
A grand opening date for the Devil's Slide twin tunnels — a $440 million, eight-year project — has been slated for March 25.
At 10 a.m. today surfers and supporters of open access to Martin's Beach in Half Moon Bay will breach the barricade and access the road 'at their own risk — power to the surfer's people.'
Concerned over what they say is a lack of information regarding the termination of Ralston Middle School principal Scott Carson, some parents are encouraging a visual gesture.
The Belmont-Redwood Shores School District is not at liberty to discuss the change in principals at Ralston Middle School.
"Sober Graduation," a simulated DUI traffic collision, will be staged on the campus of Notre Dame High School today at 1:30 p.m. A helicopter will be landing on the softball field as part of the simulation.
The author, Michael Schmitz, thanks the Belmont City Council and staff for preserving San Juan Canyon.
A traffic study will be conducted along the Alameda de las Pulgas corridor.
