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Also on today's calendar: 54th Annual Mountain View Art & Wine Festival "A Festival Like No Other" and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the tractor say to the plow? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Bay Area's first 'living levee' opens at Palo Alto Baylands (paloaltoonline.com) — Palo Alto's new "living levee" at the Baylands is now open, adding flood protection, wastewater filtration, and restored marsh habitat right along the city's shoreline. The $4.6 million project, tied to a larger wastewater plant overhaul, will be closely studied as a model for other Bay communities facing sea level rise and climate impacts.
2. How to prepare for California's new fire-smart landscaping guidelines (paloaltoonline.com) — If you live in Palo Alto's foothills or near Foothills Nature Preserve, new state "Zone 0" rules will soon require fire‑smart landscaping within five feet of your home. Local fire officials and designers explain which plants and materials to change, how city inspections already work along Page Mill and Arastradero, and ways to improve safety without sacrificing privacy.
3. 'Never forget, be ready': Remembering 9/11, 25 years later (mv-voice.com) — Palo Alto residents are invited to a multifaith peace picnic and prayer service at King Plaza on Sept. 10 to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, alongside other Peninsula remembrance events. Local firefighters and community members reflect on the attacks' lasting impact, the work of Menlo Park–based California Task Force 3 at Ground Zero, and new efforts to improve regional disaster preparedness and training.
4. Palo Alto council members reflect on 9/11 (padailypost.com) — Palo Alto City Council members share where they were on 9/11 and how they processed the attacks while living, working, and parenting in Palo Alto. Their personal stories, from classrooms to law offices and homes across town, highlight how the tragedy shaped their sense of community, public service, and what matters most today.
5. Silicon Valley parents think NYC is crazy to ban AI in schools: 'Can't make children live in the past' (nypost.com) — In Palo Alto, a $75,000-a-year Alpha School campus and the public Palo Alto Unified School District are taking very different approaches to AI in the classroom, even as New York City bans the tech for most grades. Local parents and educators debate how much AI students should use, how to keep learning meaningful, and whether public-school kids risk falling behind wealthier peers in AI fluency.
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