100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (August 2, 1918) *Santa Clara County War Savings Stamp Drive August 12-19: Campaign to Raise $1,000,000 Planned by War Council: Drive Will Open with War Show at Victory Theatre *New Tax on Automobiles Part of Revenue Bill: Other Luxury Items to be Taxed: Sporting Goods, Pianos, Cameras, and Patent … Read more
Weekly Events Calendar Thursday, August 2 Senior Center Dance Night: Santa Clara Senior Center — 1303 Fremont St., Santa Clara. 6:30 – 10:30 p.m. Admission: $6 and the dance lesson is included with admission. Light refreshments are served. Friday, August 3 Street Dance: Franklin Square — 1100-1300 Franklin St., Santa Clara. 6-9:30 p.m. Free … Read more
Santa Clara native Jim Greco has always eaten, breathed and slept baseball. While that may be a cliche, even now, the 42-year-old baseball lifer still gets to eat, breathe and sleep baseball. He is the founder and manager of the Living Legends travel ball program. Greco works full time in baseball between coaching at Homestead … Read more
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