The Humane Society of Silicon Valley, or HSSV, is waiving adoption fees for all animals after a fire damaged half of its Milpitas shelter in mid-December. “Fire damage has impacted animal housing, limiting space at the shelter,” HSSV said in a post to Facebook after the fire. “If you’ve been thinking of adopting a new … Read more
This year’s “Kitten Palooza” saw the adoption of 86 kittens. The event, put on by the Humane Society Silicon Valley earlier this month, is a push to cull the influx of kittens that flood into the shelter each year around this time. “When the weather turns warm, it kind of spurs the, uh, activity,” Kelly … Read more
The Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce’s (SVCCC) annual Mayors’ Breakfast was packed full of lighthearted fun and good-natured ribbing between mayors. Five South Bay mayors attended the breakfast, and each had a chance to extol the virtues of their cities. Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor jokingly referred to it as a meeting of her … Read more
The same day the Santa Clara County Library system re-opened libraries seven days a week, the City of Santa Clara closed its branch libraries and severely reduced hours at the City’s Central Park Library. The City closed the Northside and Mission branch libraries, cut Central Park Library hours to 24 per week, and eliminated Sunday … Read more
The second quarter avalanche by the Milpitas Trojans was too much for the Fremont Firebirds of Sunnyvale to overcome. The Trojans would extend the lead to as high as 21 points before a valiant Firebird effort in the fourth quarter, but eventually succumbing to a 62-51 defeat on Friday night. Constant pressure from the Milpitas … Read more
Santa Clara High School senior Ankith Maremanda believes that the human body is a miraculous thing, like a well-oiled machine that responds to the stimuli around it. To share his sense of awe about the human body, in 2016 at just 15 years old, Maremanda founded Human Anatomy for Youth (HAY) — an organization to … Read more