Coronavirus: San Jose to finally open trailers for homeless next to Happy...
Nearly two months after San Jose received more than 100 trailers from the state to house homeless residents especially vulnerable to coronavirus, the units are still sitting vacant. But by Thursday,...
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Worse than the Great Recession: San Jose releases new budget proposal with...
As San Jose braces for the worst recession since the Great Depression, the nation’s tenth largest city is proposing deep cuts across an array of city agencies in the wake of a global pandemic that has...
View ArticleCounty not appreciative of ‘drive-by’ for San Jose teacher
Organizers of a “Teacher Appreciation Drive-by” in Willow Glen on May 8 say they didn’t know these kinds of celebrations are now expressly forbidden in Santa Clara County. The county’s public health...
View ArticleCOVID-19 can’t stop cherry picking season in Brentwood
The coronavirus pandemic might have canceled out many springtime pleasures, but there’s no stopping the cherry blooms — or the eager U-Pick fruit lovers who come to Brentwood to enjoy the bountiful...
View Article‘I’m really disappointed’: San Jose’s Latino leaders decry disproportionate...
In response to an exclusive analysis of Santa Clara County death records showing that Latinos in San Jose were dying from COVID-19 at disproportionate rates, Latino leaders are calling on the city to...
View ArticleDigital PlayGround Festival features local talent
The annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, which features two Peninsula residents and one San Jose world premiere, has gone digital this year and is streaming most of its events free of charge. The...
View ArticleA coronavirus college admissions cheatsheet: What high school juniors need to...
When it comes to understanding the role standardized tests play in the college admissions process in California, Michal Kurlaender scores a 1600. As the chair of the UC Davis School of Education and...
View ArticlePizarro: What I’m missing most during shelter-in-place
As we draw a close to the second full month of shelter-in-place, I asked my daughter, Mia, what she missed doing most. And, because she’s 10 and her head isn’t filled with the nonsense adults deal...
View ArticlePhotos: Alameda County firefighters and sheriff’s deputies salute Covid-19...
CLICK HERE if you’re having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. Alameda County firefighters and sheriff’s deputies saluted Covid-19 health care workers at Eden Medical Center during a...
View ArticleEast Palo Alto to open free COVID-19 testing site for two days
EAST PALO ALTO — The city of East Palo Alto will be opening a free COVID-19 testing site for two days next week, in partnership with Verily Life Sciences. It will be located at East Palo Alto’s Lewis...
View ArticleCoronavirus: How one small San Jose business came back from the brink
Randy Zechman figured he had enough cash to keep his small San Jose construction company open for maybe a couple of months into a coronavirus lockdown. When shelter-in-place orders came down in March,...
View ArticlePlans for possible East Bay soccer stadium project are scrapped
A downtown soccer stadium, convention center and new hotels and housing won’t be coming to downtown Concord anytime in the foreseeable future, and the coronavirus is one of the reasons. According to...
View ArticleCorrection
On A1 of the May 15 Willow Glen Resident this photo of Diane Foxen was incorrectly cropped due to a production error.
View ArticlePhotos: A symphony of music honors hospital workers
Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. Violinist Jennifer Cho and violist Marcel Gemperli, both with the California Symphony, played at the front entrance of the...
View ArticleCupertino community briefs for the week of May 22
Magrini is new parks and rec director Joanne Magrini is Cupertino’s new director of parks and recreation, effective June 1. Magrini joins Cupertino after serving in a similar role for the San Bruno’s...
View ArticleSaratoga community briefs for the week of May 22
Hakone reopens Hakone Estate and Gardens reopened to the public on May 4. “We will follow the guidelines for the county by maintaining the social-distancing protocols,” Hakone Foundation Chair Ann...
View ArticleSantana Row launches curbside Pick-Up Program
To help streamline the process of order retrieval, Santana Row launched its Pick-Up Program, a series of color-coded areas along The Row where shoppers can pull up and wait for curbside delivery. “We...
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Graduation Day in the coronavirus era: ‘Anticlimactic’ but still an...
BERKELEY — Saturday almost looked like a typical graduation day at Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus. Students donned caps, gowns and stoles over dresses, suits and ties. They struck an endless...
View ArticlePhotos: Save our Town rally held in Livermore
Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. A “Save our Town” rally was held in downtown Livermore. The organizers of the rally say that the county coronavirus...
View ArticleMe & My Car: Alamo man’s ’76 Rolls-Royce is perfection epitomized
Editor’s note: David Krumboltz’s regular column is on hiatus until further notice due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, we’re running some of Dave’s favorite past columns. This one...
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