Morning (Crime) News Round-Up -- 11.23.09

As of Friday morning Redwood City Police had arrested six Sequoia High School students in connection with beating a classmate. Police say it is gang-related. Good thing this is a short week of school...

San Carlos debates synthetic turf... again... again...

Moving onto real problems…

Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary School District struggles with too many kids to educate and not enough schools. Which seems to be a trend countywide… perhaps there is an economy-based flee from private schools?

Here is how the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District solves its budget problems: a seven-year renewal of a parcel tax with a $96 increase — to about $180 — will go before voters in February.

Another pressing example of all demand and no supply… local charities are limping along with fewer donations than previous years. Please help!

Gary M. Lampert, 58, an attorney from Atherton died in a crash of a single-engine airplane in Watsonville on Saturday.

Seems Pacifica has it’s own ‘S-curve”… Another big rig-tractor smashes into a Pacifica home along Manor Way. Thankfully nobody was hurt. This also seems to be a trend in the County... A woman pulled into a fruit stand in Half Moon Bay on Friday... literally. Take a look at the photo.

A little Thanksgiving vignette… A group of neighbors banded together to change a law that currently bans chickens and turkeys in a hamlet of Hillsborough.

The 2007 Highway 101 shooter got 40 years to life on Friday. Just in time for turkey in prison...

In an unrelated crime note, a 20 year old was shot and killed in EPA on Thursday afternoon in a drive-by shooting... Related or unrelated to that drive-by, there was another apparent drive-by shooting in Menlo Park on Friday...

Here we go again, a DUI checkpoint in Redwood City is slated for Saturday night, November 28th. Can a huge political dust-up be far behind?

Speaking of political dust-ups... the EPA City Council censured Councilmember Peter Evans... again. This time because he called a City employee incompetent in public. Apparently, one can only call a City employee incompetent behind closed-doors...