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East San Jose leaders criticize plans to expand Good Samaritan Hospital while downgrading care at Regional Medical Center
San Jose community leaders are decrying a plan by HCA Healthcare to expand a local hospital on the western edge of the city while downgrading care at Regional Medical Center on the East Side. In February, HCA Healthcare — one of the nation’s largest for-profit health care corporations — announced...
Steep Canyon Rangers bring ‘Morning Shift’ and more to The Guild
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Steep Canyon Rangers spend a lot of time on the road, but to record their most recent studio album, 2023’s “Morning Shift,” they headed to an unusual spot, a rural, historic inn in the community of Bat Cave, North Carolina. The unique setting inspired an atmospheric quality to the album that highlights one of the band’s superpowers: songwriting that conjures a powerful sense of story and place in a sound that melds bluegrass, Americana, roots and more.
Big Silicon Valley tech campus is foreclosed as office market staggers
MOUNTAIN VIEW — A lender has seized through foreclosure a South Bay tech campus once touted as an “exquisite” property in fresh sign of the economic troubles facing the Bay Area office market. The office campus, located at 350 and 380 Ellis Street in Mountain View, was...
California Giant Berry Farms Academy Empowers Top Chefs to Champion Blueberries; Tom Smith and Sam Blackburn Comment
WATSONVILLE, CA - Blueberries were the star of the show during California Giant Berry Farms’ inaugural California Giant Chef Invitational Academy. The unique program was designed to empower and inspire the grower’s past Chef Invitational winners while elevating blueberries on menus. "We designed the Chef Invitational Academy to...
CHP Redwood City Welcomes Three New Officers Following Academy Graduation
REDWOOD CITY, California — CHP Redwood City has welcomed three new officers who recently graduated from the CHP Academy in West Sacramento. After completing 26 weeks of training, the new officers will now undergo an additional three months of field training, according to a press release from CHP Redwood City. The department expressed its best wishes to the officers as they embark on their new journey with the California Highway Patrol.
Pedro Martinez: Wilcox Grad, Now Bruins Coach; Mr. Santa Clara?
While there are a plethora of passionate people teaching and coaching in Santa Clara, a case could be made that none of them match the enthusiasm for both baseball and the city, than that of Santa Clara Bruins Head Coach Pedro Martinez. The 37-year-old has a unique perspective when it...
San Jose smoke shop owner shot, nearly killed in robbery over Rolex watch
A South Bay business owner is recovering after a violent store robbery and is now determined to get justice.Jai Patel, owner of neighboring businesses, Dab Society Glass Gallery & Smoke Shop and CBD Farmacy, was shot by masked robbers inside his San Jose business.His injuries were potentially life-threatening."I have about roughly 80 stitches on my body currently and broken bones of course," Patel said from his hospital bed, "My artery was - the main artery was shot at so, I lost a lot of blood, about 35 pints of blood."Patel said it happened around two in the afternoon on July...
San Mateo County offers free food, music, and entertainment at Inclusion Festival in Redwood City on Thursday, July 25
San Mateo County, California – San Mateo County welcomes the local residents at the 5th Annual Inclusion Festival this Thursday, July 25th, in honoring the diversity and spirit of its disabled community. This free-of-charge festival offers a day full of food, entertainment, and music at Red Morton Park in Redwood City.
Rangers sign their first 17 draft picks, including first-rounder Malcolm Moore from Stanford
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers have signed their first 17 draft picks, including first-rounder Malcolm Moore. Moore, a catcher out of Stanford, was the 30th overall pick in Major League Baseball's amateur draft, which was held during the All-Star festivities hosted by the Rangers. The team announced the signings Wednesday, eight days after the draft ended.
Help needed for mural project
The public is invited to roll up their sleeves and help paint a giant outdoor mural at Hazelwood Park in Watsonville on Saturday. The ongoing project by Monterey Bay Murals and Parks and Recreation Commissioner Fabian Leonor near Rolling Hills Middle School, the event runs from 10am to 5pm.
Watsonville starts clearing homeless encampments
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — The city of Watsonville began to clear out a homeless encampment along the Pajaro River Levee on Monday. It's a process that is expected to last through Aug. 2. On Friday, the city posted multiple notices across encampment structures about their plans to clear out the...
Jan Harwood: Still a ‘Raging Granny’ after all these years
If AARP is ever in the market for a local spokesperson who embodies the possibilities of retirement, Santa Cruz has a promising candidate for the job. Jan Harwood has done what many of us envision for our own lives. In the mid-1990s, she retired from her career as a psychiatric social worker, moved to Santa Cruz and, in a real sense, became herself. And since then, she’s become something of a local legend.
62nd Cabrillo Fest spurs musical questions of movement and migration
Have you ever heard a parhelion? What does the Santa Cruz lighthouse sound like, translated into symphonic form? How does music made in West African refugee camps connect to that of the US? Is the concept of immigration holding back our development as a species? Prick up your ears and head down to Santa Cruz over the next two weeks to explore these questions with hundreds of other curious listeners.
Expectant parents identified as victims swept into ocean in Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Twovictims who died last week after being swept into the ocean in Santa Cruz lived in San Jose. The victims were a couple, identified by family as Pedro and Emma Nelly, and were soon to be married. Pedro's father said it is an indescribable pain...
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