For the Santa Clara girls volleyball team, winning on the court hasn’t come easy the past two seasons. Back-to-back 1-11 league seasons certainly isn’t ideal, but wins and losses don’t always tell the whole story. This season will be the third year the team has played under Head Coach Megan Morse-Quevedo, who graduated from Santa … Read more
Since Superior Court Judge Thomas Kuhnle found Santa Clara had violated the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA), the public conversation has been dominated by alternative districting maps, election sequencing, the extent of judicial power over charter cities and a fast track schedule for implementing a new by-district representation system in time for November’s election. But … Read more
Corruption in Santa Clara politics — not a racial divide — is the main problem with elections in the City, a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee said. At a meeting of the Citizens Advisory Committee Monday night, Kevin Park told a group of 13 people who met at the Women’s Club Adobe that the … Read more
The Police Blotter highlights a partial list of incidents in the city and is distributed on a weekly basis. The Blotter provides the date, time, approximate location, a narrative summary of the incident, case number and the most serious arrest charge. Meanwhile, the Arrest Log provides a timely, chronological summary of all of the arrests … Read more
For Related Companies’ lobbyist Jude Barry politics is business — from selling campaign consulting and lobbying to selling software. But the fact that his business partners and campaign software products have been showing up in Santa Clara with increasing frequency in recent years raises questions. His closeness to Mayor Lisa Gillmor is well known. They … Read more
At the July 24 dress rehearsal of Roberta Jones Junior Theatre’s (RJJT) “James and the Giant Peach,” 58 cast members and 20 crew members put on a peachy keen musical with director Jennifer Kohler. Based on Roald Dahl’s popular children’s book, the story depicted the adventures of an optimistic orphan named James and the animated … Read more
Arcade games might seem like a thing of the past, especially with the technological advances in gaming today, but a group of pinball enthusiasts believed the outdated game machines were still worth sharing with the community. And so California Extreme was born. Founded in 1997, the annual “Classic Arcade Games Show” celebrates all things arcade … Read more
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends (SCCLFF) has been leading the charge in a $300,000 grassroots fundraising effort, “My Library, My Story,” to completely renovate the Mission Branch Library at 1098 Lexington St. in Santa Clara. “When we first explored doing the fundraising campaign, we spoke to many, many community members about their … Read more
It’s the last few days before summer break ends and both parents and students alike are scrambling with their back-to-school shopping. Everybody’s been there; going to Target and dumping a pile of notebooks into your shopping cart, or ordering a calculator on Amazon and hoping that it’ll arrive on time. Jamie Saturno is an incoming … Read more
Good news! You’ve been promoted to supervisor. Bad news! You’ve been promoted to supervisor. As a supervisor, you are expected to do many new things. Like work. Let’s face it. Not everyone in your department can have the same sick grandmother with the same chronic case of exploding head syndrome — a classic excuse that … Read more