Author: Carolyn Schuk
Arts & EntertainmentCommunity
An ODDventure Holiday Fair
December 13, 2024
If Halloween is your favorite holiday, the Menagerie Oddities Yuletide Market on the Winchester Mystery House grounds is the holiday...
Community
Giving Thanks for 10 Years at Independence Network
December 10, 2024
It was near Thanksgiving ten years ago that Daljit Chahal, a volunteer at Wilson preschool, saw Independence Network’s students leaving...
Community
The Bear Necessity: Santa Clara’s Christmas Tradition
December 3, 2024
Nix the Bear is what reporter Bob Savage wrote in the November 18,1987 edition of the Santa Clara American Weekly....
Arts & EntertainmentCommunity
Celebrate the Holidays 2024
November 28, 2024
Here are some upcoming events for the holidays in the Bay Area. Most are in the South Bay, but we...
CommunitySchools
Students Roll Up Their Sleeves to Make Holidays Happier for Others
November 19, 2024
Last week, students of The King’s Academy (TKA) in Sunnyvale kicked off the season of giving, coming into school early...
City Politics
Follow the Money Update: Independent Expenditures
November 5, 2024
As the 2024 Santa Clara election campaign ends, campaign donations all city races near $3 million, with spending reaching $2.8...
Community
A Century Ago Paving City Streets Was Controversial
November 5, 2024
Santa Clara takes great pride in the quality of its streets. And rightly so. The City is consistently “Good” or...
Community
Unfunded Infrastructure: Santa Clara’s Parks, Playgrounds and Pools
November 4, 2024
Santa Clara has 47 parks and 65 park buildings, many of them built in the 1960s; and, like other city...
City PoliticsCommunity
Unfunded Infrastructure: Streets, Storm Drains, Buildings
November 1, 2024
Santa Clara has 600 miles of roads to maintain but is $2.2 million short of what’s needed to maintain them....
City Politics
2024 Follow the Money Update: Independent Expenditure Committees Spend $2.25M
October 30, 2024
The simple story of Santa Clara’s 2024 election is that individual candidate finances are almost not worth talking about because...









