The Menlo Park City Council met Saturday for its annual goal-setting meeting, ironing out its top priorities for the year ahead and letting the community air its grievances and recommend which new priorities should be adopted.
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Atherton Mayor Elizabeth Lewis. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
The Atherton City Council selected Elizabeth Lewis to serve as mayor and Mike Lempres to serve as vice mayor for 2021 during a Wednesday, Dec. 16, Zoom meeting. The council also said farewell to outgoing Council member Cary Wiest.
Lewis said the COVID-19 pandemic has required people to rethink their priorities and how they lived in 2020. During the meeting, she also shared the personal news that her husband Joe died of cancer on Dec. 5. She said her husband insisted she run for reelection in the fall. He loved how much I loved the work (on council) and he knew that he was not going to recover, Lewis shared. I m glad I did and I m grateful for all the many Atherton residents who reelected me for my fourth term on the council. … As I look to 2021, I know that it has to be better than 2020 for all of us. We have learned how to live with adversity and how to be creative with how we conduct bu
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A man disembarks from a train at the Atherton station on Dec. 13, the last day the station was open. Photo by Olivia Treynor.
It was the end of the line for rail service in Atherton last weekend. The final train stopped in town on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 13. Caltrain opted earlier this month to discontinue service in town in favor of nearby Menlo Park and Redwood City stations, which have much higher ridership and where denser developments are projected to generate higher levels of future demand for rail service.
The Atherton City Council voted to shut down the historic station at the end of October because of low ridership over the years and a desire to safeguard the town from future legislation similar to the recent Senate Bill 50, which would have required cities to allow high-density housing development near public transit.
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