The following is a calendar of events happening this weekend near Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Want to share an event to be featured? Please email the details to info@svvoice.com for consideration. All Weekend Home for the Holidays Comedy Showcase — Friday, Dec, 27 – Sunday, Dec. 29 at Rooster T Feathers Comedy Club (157 … Read more
Santa Clara Unified closes out 2024 by welcoming a new board member. Debates about when the 2024 – 2025 school year should begin dominated the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, Dec. 19. Board Elections The voters have spoken and reelected Bonnie Lieberman for Trustee Area 7 and Dr. Michele Ryan for Trustee Area … Read more
The following is a calendar of events happening this weekend near Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Want to share an event to be featured? Please email the details to info@svvoice.com for consideration. All Weekend Holiday Mansion Tours — Saturday, Nov. 23 – Wednesday, Jan. 1 at Winchester Mystery House (525 S. Winchester Blvd., San Jose) … Read more
The following is a calendar of events happening this weekend near Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Want to share an event to be featured? Please email the details to info@svvoice.com for consideration. All Weekend Winter Wonder Market 2024 — Saturday, Dec. 14 – Sunday, Dec. 15 at San Jose Convention Center (150 W San Carlos … Read more
The following is a calendar of events happening this weekend near Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Want to share an event to be featured? Please email the details to info@svvoice.com for consideration. All Weekend Festival of Lights — Friday, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. – Saturday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Mission Santa Clara … Read more
At the rate it’s going, Santa Clara may have to change its nickname to “The Data Center of What’s Possible.” At its most recent meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Santa Clara City Council went against the planning commission, overturning its rejection of a data center project, set to be located at 1231 Comstock St. … Read more
It was Sunday in Santa Clara on a sunny weekend sandwiched between storms. “This is midway between a kid’s lemonade stand and Safeway,” said Ron Kleinman. He was standing on the sidewalk, monitoring his wife as she sorted through boxes of glossy, golden-orange persimmons in the back of a pickup truck parked in a neighborhood … Read more
Over the past decade, the amount of money each Santa Claran forks over to the government for services has nearly doubled. Santa Clara’s population in 2010 was 116,648, but a 2023 estimate shows that it rose by 14,594, according to census data. City budgets go back to 2014. Spending that year averaged across the 2010 … Read more
Nix the Bear is what reporter Bob Savage wrote in the November 18,1987 edition of the Santa Clara American Weekly. It’s inconceivable that anyone could offer such a callous remark about Santa Clara’s favorite stuffed animal, the teddy bear that had commanded the top of the city’s Christmas tree for 76 years. On more than … Read more
A new concept for one of Sunnyvale’s parks left the city council weighing several competing goods. At its most recent meeting Nov. 19, the Sunnyvale City Council approved the renovation of Lakewood Park, but the item stirred several concerns among residents. Among those concerns, three issues were most prominent. The first was balancing the benefits … Read more