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Council Sets Sights On Big-Ticket Events, Bond Projects for 2025

Council Sets Sights On Big-Ticket Events, Bond Projects for 2025

David Alexander

April 23, 2025

Sports and infrastructure will be Santa Clara’s focus over the next year. At the Santa Clara City Council’s priority setting…

Winning Connections: Sports and Local Business

Winning Connections: Sports and Local Business

Carolyn Schuk

April 22, 2025

With the World Cup and Super Bowl coming to Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium next year, the business of sports is…

Rest vs Rust: How High School Softball and Baseball Coaches View Spring Break

Rest vs Rust: How High School Softball and Baseball Coaches View Spring Break

Andrew Bensch

April 22, 2025

Rest vs rust; it’s a classic sports debate. When there is a break in the game schedule, should teams take…

Milestones – Majority Rule – Opinion

Milestones – Majority Rule – Opinion

Miles H Barber, Publisher

April 17, 2025

Right or wrong, agree or disagree, common sense or no sense, if your thinking matches up with the majority, you are…

Wilcox Wins Big With Impressive Little Things 

Wilcox Wins Big With Impressive Little Things 

Andrew Bensch

April 16, 2025

Friday afternoon’s baseball matchup between the Wilcox Chargers and Milpitas Trojans was pretty much decided by the conclusion of the…

Santa Clara Gears Up For Super Bowl LX At Levi’s Stadium

Santa Clara Gears Up For Super Bowl LX At Levi’s Stadium

David Alexander

April 16, 2025

Super Bowl preparations are coming together, with the city manager saying the final agreements will likely be complete in the…

Mission City Voices: The Leprechaun Trap

Mission City Voices: The Leprechaun Trap

T. Flora

April 12, 2025

It was March 2020, and the world was spinning in a direction no one expected with the escalating Covid-19 pandemic. …

Santa Clara Unified Welcomes New Superintendent Dr. Damon Wright

Santa Clara Unified Welcomes New Superintendent Dr. Damon Wright

Alissa Soroten

April 10, 2025

Welcome to Santa Clara Dr. Damon Wright, the new Superintendent of the Santa Clara Unified School District. The Board of…

Milestones – Mission City’s Political Theater – Opinion

Milestones – Mission City’s Political Theater – Opinion

Miles H Barber, Publisher

April 10, 2025

The best theatrical show in Santa Clara isn’t at the Santa Clara Players or the Roberta Jones Junior Theater.  The…

CalMatters: California Could Ban Teens from Riding in Front Seat

CalMatters: California Could Ban Teens from Riding in Front Seat

CalMatters

April 9, 2025

Calling “shotgun” to ride in the front seat may no longer be an option for small-sized California middle and high…

Swim Center To Get Long-Awaited Repairs 

Swim Center To Get Long-Awaited Repairs 

David Alexander

April 9, 2025

Santa Clara’s George Haines International Swim Center (ISC) will finally get the facelift many have been waiting for since its…

Four Local Elementary Schools Receive Distinguished Schools Recognition

Four Local Elementary Schools Receive Distinguished Schools Recognition

Erika Towne

April 9, 2025

Four local elementary schools have achieved top marks with California’s Department of Education. Washington Open in the Santa Clara Unified…

Boaters Warned of Whale Sightings in the San Francisco Bay After Three Found Dead

Boaters Warned of Whale Sightings in the San Francisco Bay After Three Found Dead

Bay City News

April 8, 2025

The San Francisco Bay has been hosting an influx of gray whales over the past couple weeks or so. One…

Sunnyvale Council Rejects Variance For Home Office

Sunnyvale Council Rejects Variance For Home Office

David Alexander

April 8, 2025

The Sunnyvale City Council has denied a resident’s request to exempt an illegally built home office from zoning regulations. The…

Santa Clara Residents Join National Postcard Writing Campaign

Santa Clara Residents Join National Postcard Writing Campaign

David Alexander

April 8, 2025

A group of Santa Clarans are letting Washington know exactly what they think of the series of federal budget cuts….

Santa Clara County Takes Over Regional Medical Center

Santa Clara County Takes Over Regional Medical Center

Press Release

April 7, 2025

The County of Santa Clara officially assumed ownership and operation of Regional Medical Center (RMC) on April 1, 2025.  The…

Santa Clara’s Triton Museum: San José’s Loss, Santa Clara’s Gain

Santa Clara’s Triton Museum: San José’s Loss, Santa Clara’s Gain

Carolyn Schuk

April 7, 2025

The Triton might still be San José’s premier fine art museum had it not been for San José Fire Marshal John…

Condors Contain Firebirds, Fly Home With 12-6 Victory

Condors Contain Firebirds, Fly Home With 12-6 Victory

Andrew Bensch

April 7, 2025

No seniors? No problem. The MacDonald Condors first-year varsity softball program delivered an impressive performance Wednesday, April 2. Despite no…

Gabriel Coke Presents Unlimited Imagination at Triton Museum

Gabriel Coke Presents Unlimited Imagination at Triton Museum

Press Release

April 5, 2025

The Triton Museum of Art is thrilled to present Unlimited Imagination (May 3 – Aug. 10, 2025) by Gabriel Coke…

CalMatters: Cal State is Automatically Admitting High School Students with Good Grades

CalMatters: Cal State is Automatically Admitting High School Students with Good Grades

CalMatters

April 4, 2025

More than 17,400 high school seniors last fall got the sweetest news any anxious student can get: Congratulations, because of…