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Milpitas Inclusive PTA hosts General Meeting on special education
The Milpitas Inclusive PTA will have its first 2020 General Meeting today, May 28.
Last September, Carla Crenshaw paved the way for a much-needed community-wide...
Milpitas City Council Endorses Laura’s Law to Support People with Mental Health Disorders
The Milpitas City Council unanimously voted to endorse Laura’s Law last Tuesday, a state law that empowers courts to mandate psychiatric treatment for certain...
Facing new challenges, childcare facilities start to reopen in Milpitas
Earlier this month, the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department amended the Shelter-in-Place order to allow “childcare establishments, summer camps, schools, and other educational...
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Business
Business
Support Kathmandu Cuisine in Milpitas for Takeout Thursday
Today's Takeout Thursday restaurant in Milpitas is Kathmandu Cuisine. Support this local business by ordering takeout, or contributing to purchase a meal for a...
Business
Santa Clara County hits 11.7% unemployment rate in April
Today, the California Employment Development put out a statement showing a 15.5% California unemployment rate and an 11.7% Santa Clara County unemployment rate for...
Business
Wettenstein leads: New Milpitas Chamber of Commerce President hard at work during pandemic
Warren Wettenstein has a positive attitude.
Despite leading the Milpitas Chamber of Commerce as President during a historic pandemic, he consistently finds a way to...
Community
Blog
Sewing for safety
Guest Post - 0
Amid the pandemic that had just gripped the world, on March 21st, I found out that a personal friend, who happens to be a...
Community
Community Letter: How Valley Water is responding to COVID-19
Guest Post - 0
Dear Neighbor,
I hope you are staying healthy and safe. As our state moves into a new phase of the response and gradual reopening, Valley...
Business
Trader Joe’s coming to Milpitas, Company Spokesperson says
Trader Joe’s, the popular neighborhood grocery store chain, will open a store in Milpitas, according to a company spokesperson.
“We are planning to bring a...
Community
Young mothers face obstacles during COVID-19 pandemic
18-year-old Jessica Esparza lost her job in March, after the shelter-in-place order went into effect across the Bay Area.
Now, she is struggling to provide...
Community
The Love Mask Brigade delivers free masks throughout Milpitas
The pandemic has awoken an outpouring of community support across Milpitas.
A group of determined women have formed the Love Mask Brigade; they've been making...
SchoolLatest
Milpitas Inclusive PTA hosts General Meeting on special education
The Milpitas Inclusive PTA will have its first 2020 General Meeting today, May 28.
Last September, Carla Crenshaw paved the way for a much-needed community-wide...
Creative ways that Milpitas High educators and student clubs are engaging with distance learning
Although the Milpitas High School campus has been physically closed, school remains in session through distance learning, said Superintendent Cheryl Jordan. Educators continue to...
Amidst a world crisis: A teenager’s perspective
When I was younger, about two or three, my family would often visit the zoo and I would always be amused by all the...
Minh Ngo sworn in to serve on Milpitas Unified School District’s Board of Education
On Tuesday night, Minh Ngo was officially sworn in as a Trustee on the Milpitas Unified School District’s (MUSD) Board of Education by Milpitas...
Inspiration during coronavirus: Milpitas High School junior creates ProjectMaskify; students make and donate 800 masks (and counting!)
The most challenging of situations have the potential to spark great movements that propel the world forward.
ProjectMaskify is one such great movement.
A junior at...
Election
City Council
Milpitas City Council discussed putting cannabis tax measure on November 2020 ballot…and things got heated
At their last virtual meeting on April 21, Milpitas City Councilmembers had a discussion about voting to include a cannabis sales tax on the...
Coronavirus
Minh Ngo sworn in to serve on Milpitas Unified School District’s Board of Education
On Tuesday night, Minh Ngo was officially sworn in as a Trustee on the Milpitas Unified School District’s (MUSD) Board of Education by Milpitas...
Elections
Ngo Tops Kong, Vuong in School Board Special Election
Less than an hour after the polls closed on Tuesday, a Milpitas resident posted a photo on Facebook of Milpitas Unified School District (MUSD)...
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Opinion
The Second Dangers of COVID-19
While health care workers are struggling to obtain personal protective equipment (PPE), some of us are littering it at our local supermarkets’ parking lots....
It’s OK to joke around & laugh right now
In the United States, as of this writing, 215,344 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Of these, 5,112 have died. And...
Opinion: Our partisan fever is dangerous
Partisanship is particularly useless right now. Worse, it’s proving dangerous...
I saw this exemplified in real time last week. Mid-week, I was reading...
Opinion: Why is blackface still such a divisive issue? Perhaps we don’t know what it really means
David Carter, a Milpitas High School teacher, wore blackface. Carter’s actions -- regardless of holiday -- were wrong and racist. That we can all...
Opinion: In the matter of the blackface teacher, there’s a more important question than whether he should be fired…
In regard to the matter of one David Carter, the Milpitas teacher who wore blackface in the classroom last Halloween, and whose job status...
Arts
Milpitas presents two-day city block event set for May
There might still be a few weeks of winter left, but Milpitas is already planning for its biggest party of the spring.
On Tuesday, the...
Man and Fire
Under the colorful evening sun,
peace and rest at home,
the man seeks refuge and solace,
when the hustle of the day is gone.
Gusty winds outside howl,
shaking...
If Trees Could Talk
If trees could talk they would reveal time itself.
A time that bore rings on her very soul.
The ages of time
The ages of mankind
How the...
Letters to the EditorLatest
Contrails and Climate Change
Guest Post - 0
Let's start off with a few words about ConTrails. Some clear day you may look to the sky and see a long straight white line being drawn on the...
Democracy dies at last Milpitas City Council meeting
Guest Post - 0
Dear Editor:
It took exactly 5 hours 15 minutes and 29 seconds for democracy to be snuffed out at the most recent special City Council...
The Essence of Ramadhan
Dear Editor,
Ramadhan is a time for fasting for the Muslims. But abstaining from food and drink from sunup to sundown isn’t the only thing...
Local Milpitas company donates 2,000 surgical masks in COVID-19 pandemic relief effort
Dear Editor:
Golden Altos Corp. has donated 2,000 surgical and N95 masks to healthcare workers at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, who need them to continue...
Police
Crime
Suspect who vandalized businesses in Milpitas and San Jose identified
The Milpitas Police Department (MPD) has reached out to the public for help with locating a vandalism suspect...
Working with San Jose Police Department detectives,...
Accident
Drunk driver arrested following fatal crash on Piedmont Road
A call came into the Milpitas Police Department (MPD) at around 11:19pm on 1-9-20. On Piedmont Road's 1198 block, a 2005 black Porsche Cayenne...
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Fire
Fire
Four San Jose firefighters test positive for coronavirus
In an announcement today from the City of San Jose, officials shared that four San Jose firefighters have contracted COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Two...
Community
Milpitas family seeks answers after electrical fire from PG&E power line claims their home
When PG&E announced just over a week ago that they would shut off power to approximately 27,000 residents in Santa Clara County due to...
Fire
Bay Area consumed by blackouts, fires…
Uncertainty loomed in the Bay Area on Monday morning as many households and businesses remained without power, the result of a shutoff by Pacific...
At HomeMilpitas
Milpitas Library keeps community engaged virtually
Although the doors to the Milpitas Library have been closed since shelter-in-place orders went into effect last month, it doesn’t mean that access to...
Staying fit and active while at home; an interview with Fitness Instructor Fernanda Daldon
Fernanda Daldon is a Fitness Instructor/Personal Trainer, who has 18 years of experience in teaching Water Exercise. Her passion lies in guiding her clients...
AM Shot of Espresso
Energize your morning with this 6-minute total body warm-up. It's like a double shot of espresso to get your day (and body) moving.
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10 Minute Total Body
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Blog
Sewing for safety
Guest Post - 0
Amid the pandemic that had just gripped the world, on March 21st, I found out that a personal friend, who happens to be a...
RED DENNIS & The Politics of Disrespect
I was in Mountain View, toward the end of 2019, in front of a plain gray building awaiting the presence of The Ciardellas and...
Live Blog: COVID-19 updates for Milpitas
11:58 p.m., April 23, 2020:
At present Milpitas has 66 total cases of COVID-19. The total cases in Santa Clara County are up at 1,987;...
Lawsuits: Nasty, Brutal, But Short?
The federal and state courts in Santa Clara County are some of the busiest in California and the nation as a whole. With its...
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