Learning Mandarin is about culture as well as language for the K – 8 CLIP students at John Muir Elementary School and Joaquin Miller Middle School in San Jose. CLIP (Cupertino Language Immersion Program) is an Alternative School Program of the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD), which includes 23 K – 8 schools (no high … Read more
A Stanford University student journalist who entered a campus building last summer while covering a student protest in support of Palestinians during the war between Israel and Hamas will not be criminally charged, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said on March 6. The decision comes about six weeks after the university said it … Read more
Baybots (Team #65125), a robotics team from Sunnyvale, has been crowned Champion’s First Place winner at the FIRST LEGO League Peninsula District Championship, held at Palo Alto High School. Their outstanding performance earned them an invitation to the FIRST World Festival in Houston, TX, where they will compete against top teams from around the globe. … Read more
On March 19, the City of Sunnyvale announced the retirement of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) Chief Phan Ngo after serving as chief since 2017. Ngo will retire at the end of April with 36 years of dedicated public safety experience. The City will conduct a nationwide recruitment to find his replacement. “Our City … Read more
At the Mission City Center for Performing Arts (3250 Monroe St.), March 21-23 and March 28-30, Santa Clara’s beloved Roberta Jones Junior Theatre (RJJT) reprises its (and one of the world’s) favorite musicals—“The Wizard of Oz.” Put on your ruby red shoes, close your eyes, and tap your heels together three times. And think to … Read more
In these hyper-partisan times, Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on much. That includes the members of the California Legislature. Of the 2,278 bills lawmakers submitted by the deadline last week, only 11 had Republicans and Democrats as joint lead authors, according to a CalMatters analysis of the Digital Democracy database. Another 41 bills … Read more
Former Santa Clara City Council Member Anthony Becker will be in court later this week for sentencing in his perjury case. Becker was convicted of felony perjury and violation of duty, a misdemeanor, on Dec. 5, 2024. In a court filing in January, District Attorney Jeff Rosen asked the court to sentence Becker to “significant” … Read more
Perspective can be a powerful, perhaps even, sometimes, a game-changing tool. A 16-0 baseball game typically lends one to believe that the team scoring 16 runs is perfectly pleased with the outcome, while the squad shutout on the scoreboard is definitely dejected, right? Well, at least for one afternoon, the opposite rang true after the … Read more
From school board and city council members to parents and local firefighters, members of the Pomeroy Elementary School community in Santa Clara turned out in force to help spread the joy of reading. The school’s annual Read Across America event on March 3 was a rousing success. For the younger students, it was a chance … Read more
Not only does Santa Clara pay its police the second-highest average salary in the state, it has also been offering its utility employees increasingly cushy salaries. While Silicon Valley Power (SVP) only added 29 employees from 2015 to 2023, it doubled its payroll over the same period. This trend mirrors citywide spending. In 2015, SVP paid its 178 … Read more