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About Julia
Julia Brown started working at Embarcadero Media in 2016 as a news reporter for the Pleasanton Weekly. From 2018 to 2021 she worked as assistant editor of The Almanac and Mountain View Voice. Before joining the company, Julia was a news reporter for the Half Moon Bay Review newspaper and wrote about education, agriculture, and the unincorporated San Mateo County Coastside.A Foster City native, Julia earned a bachelor's degree in modern literature from University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree in journalism from Stanford University.
Stories by Julia
Carb cravings: Boichik Bagels coming soon, Rōzmary Kitchen's sandwich pop-ups return
If freshly baked breads is your idea of heaven, Palo Alto and Mountain View might just become your new happy places in coming weeks.[Monday, February 7, 2022]
Woman who yelled anti-Asian epithets during theft in Mountain View arrested
Mountain View police arrested a 39-year-old Greenbrae woman Friday (March 5) after she allegedly yelled racial epithets while stealing from a store in downtown Mountain View last month, according to a police press release.[Monday, March 8, 2021]
Record-breaking coach Tara VanDerveer on pandemic play and social justice
Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer talks about reaching the milestone of leading the all-time coaching wins list, what it's been like coaching amidst coronavirus restrictions and protocols, and social justice activism.[Wednesday, February 3, 2021]
PG&E to host wildfire safety webinar Wednesday
PG&E is hosting a virtual meeting from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, for San Mateo and Santa Clara County residents interested in learning about the utility's wildfire safety program.[Wednesday, June 3, 2020]
Update: Peninsula Target stores removed from temporary closure list
Target has temporarily closed stores throughout the country following looting at some of its stores nationwide during protests this week in response to the death of George Floyd.[Saturday, May 30, 2020]
Coroner's Office identifies motorcyclist killed in Mountain View crash
A 56-year-old San Jose man was killed Thursday night (May 7) after crashing his motorcycle on Highway 237 in Mountain View, according to the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office.[Saturday, May 9, 2020]
Coronavirus weekend update: Santa Clara County reports 19 new cases
COVID-19 infections rose on the Peninsula over the past week, with Santa Clara and San Mateo counties together reporting 3,764 cases of the coronavirus and 185 deaths from the disease as of Saturday.[Saturday, May 9, 2020]
Search-and-rescue team deployed to Camp Fire
Urban search-and-rescue specialists, including first responders from the Menlo Park and Woodside Fire protection districts, have been sent to Butte County to help find people who have gone missing in the Camp Fire.[Monday, November 19, 2018]
Caltrans to close Highway 85 connector ramp overnight Thursday
Caltrans is planning to close the southbound Highway 85 connector ramp to westbound Highway 237 in Mountain View from 8 p.m. tonight (June 7) to 7 a.m. Friday as part of continuing roadwork on Highway 237.[Thursday, June 7, 2018]
