Reporters’ notebook

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Motiff Investing Inc. preleased the 21,397-square-foot office building at 2 E. Third Ave. in San Mateo, according to Colliers International. The building, on the corner of El Camino Real, is currently under construction.

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San Mateo native Michael Trucco is now on Fox Network’s show “Grandfathered,” starring John Stamos as a lifelong bachelor who discovers he is both a father and a grandfather, and will continue throughout the remainder of the season. Trucco plays Craig, a sexy hipster musician. Trucco graduated from Junipero Serra High School and Santa Clara University.

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Half Moon Bay City Council meetings will now be translated into Spanish. The city has a headphone/transmitting system and brings in an interpreter who will discretely speak into a microphone, interpreting the proceedings of the meeting into Spanish, to be heard by those members of the audience wearing the headphones. At the meetings, community members need only request the headphones to hear the entire meeting in Spanish. The interpreter will be available at the beginning of the meeting. If no one requests the service, then the interpreter will not stay for the entire meeting, according to the city.

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This St. Patrick’s Day holds a special meaning for Lash’s Place, a barber shop off Palm Avenue in San Mateo. Turns out the holiday is the 40th anniversary as Lash Stevenson opened the shop on March 17, 1976. Once downtown, it moved to the new Palm Avenue location years ago.

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Due to weather conditions, the intersection closure of Broadway and Rollins Road and traffic switchover for the third phase of the Highway 101/Broadway Interchange Project has been postponed from March 4-6 to March 11-12 between the hours of 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.

The intersection closure will allow for Caltrans to begin the process of switching traffic from the existing Broadway overcrossing to the new Broadway overcrossing. The intersection will be open during daytime hours, however motorist should be prepared for changes in lane conditions. The new traffic configuration will be in effect for approximately 10 months.

The Reporters’ Notebook is a weekly collection of facts culled from the notebooks of the Daily Journal staff. It appears in the Friday edition.