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Week in Review: San Mateo Massage Parlor Cited in Hooker Probe; Minkey-Selvitella to Sit Out 2013 Council Race
A round-up of major news stories from the past week.
Monday, April 23
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo/San Francisco) told Patch in an email that veteran KCBS radio newsman Bob Melrose, who retired earlier this month, will be as much for his legendary reporting as for his old-fashioned quirkiness.
Melrose spent six hours manning the phone with Guyana when news broke that Speier was among the shooting victims at nearby airstrip during a Jonestown massacre that left 900, the San Jose Mercury reported.
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“Bob Melrose was a veteran reporter lending pride to the profession of journalism," she said. "I will miss his excellent reports and of course the squeak – squeak of his sneakers when he was approaching me with his old fashioned tape recorder to ask me to comment on the latest breaking news.”
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Tuesday, April 24
Jennifer Minkey-Selvitella, widely viewed as a favorite in the 2013 Foster City City Council race, told Patch she .
Minkey-Selvitella cited wanting to spend more time with her three young children, growing her business, and lingering election fatigue from an exhausting 2011 race to be the primary reasons for sitting out the next year’s campaign.
"It was a tough decision only because I truly feel I have a lot to offer the city," Minkey-Selvitella said.
Wednesday, April 25
San Mateo County will absorb about 600 additional state prison inmates by 2014 under Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday.
The plan calls for vocational job training, substance abuse treatment, housing support services, probation supervision and mental health programs that the board says are pivotal to reducing recidivism.
Thursday, April 26
Foster City police Capt. Jon Froomin told Patch that the department's investigation into the grisly killing of 71-year-old Klaus Gachter in his lagoon front home remains .
Few details have emerged since Gachter's body was discovered on the 600 block of Waterbury Lane on Dec. 16.
"We're absolutely not calling it a cold case, " he said. "We're working with the evidence that we have and the information that we have. It is still an active investigation."
Friday, April 27
San Mateo police cited the owner of a local spa in connection with alleged acts, authorities said on Thursday.
The department's Special Investigations initiated the probe of Celandine Day Spa (155 Fifth Avenue) in response to complaints from other businesses.