Lost treasure turns up in Niles library

Bob Cox writes Mercury News Reports Just off the Niles main drag in San Fransico sits one of the Fremont district’s rarely seen treasures — the 75-year-old Niles library. It contains an extensive, one-of-a-kind file on the history of Niles and 11,000 other items — books, newspapers, videos, CDs, audio cassettes and a sculpture the Monterey Museum of Art thought was lost for more than 40 years, the “Poppy Nymph,” valued at $20,000, “