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Deputies arrest car thieves in Saratoga

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

Sept. 19Reckless evading: At 2:04 a.m., deputies responded to an automated license plate reader notification for a vehicle with a stolen license plate at Saratoga-Sunnyvale and Prospect roads. An investigation revealed the plate was stolen from a vehicle in San Jose and was still outstanding. Deputies located and attempted to stop the vehicle a short time later, but the driver did not yield and recklessly evaded, and the pursuit was ultimately terminated. The suspect driver is unknown and at large.Sept. 21Forgery: A Saratoga business reported that someone altered and cashed two checks belonging to the business for a loss of about $13,550.Possession of a stolen vehicle: At 12:48 p.m., deputies responded to an automated license plate reader notification for a stolen vehicle at Saratoga Avenue and Kosich Drive. An investigation revealed the vehicle was stolen from San Jose and was still outstanding. Deputies located and stopped the vehicle a short time later. Further investigation reve...

Bay Area high school football: Where to find our complete Week 10 coverage

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

That’s a wrap for Week 10 of the 2023 high school football season.Los Gatos showed it could be cool under pressure in a game-winning drive at Wilcox, and Capuchino used guile to defeat Aragon.Acalanes’ unheralded senior keyed a huge victory in DAL-Foothill play.In the WCAL, Valley Christian gave the Serra juggernaut all it could handle and St. Francis made a statement vs. Riordan.As always, the Bay Area News Group has you covered.If you have not already, please subscribe here for digital access all season long. Your contributions keep us going.Here is our complete Week 10 coverage.Enjoy.Roundup: Best of Week 10Saturday roundup: Best of Week 10Results: Weekend scoreboard, how Top 25 faredPhotos: Our staff’s Week 10 imagesClose call: Serra survives scareHolding on: Branham clinches playoff spotSt. Francis: Lancers run by RiordanCool under pressure: Los Gatos rallies vs. WilcoxStepping up: Acalanes pulls away from Las LomasSenior day sadness: Sobrato’s final home game...

PG&E continues undergrounding utilities in Sunnyvale

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

Utility undergroundingWhile PG&E has completed a majority of the construction on a utility undergrounding project on Wolfe Road between Homestead Road and El Camino Real, work isn’t expected to be completed until spring of 2024.Electrical services are being cut over from overhead to underground power sources.  AT&T and Comcast are also performing their cable installation and service cut-over work.  After the undergrounding is finished, the city’s pavement restoration work on Wolfe Road is set to begin in late spring of 2024.Free sandbagsFree sandbags intended to help prevent flooding are available for pickup at the Sunnyvale Corporation Yard at 221 Commercial St.Pickup times are Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Both filled and unfilled sandbags are available at no cost on a drop-in basis. There is a limit of 10 sandbags per address; additional sandbags can be made available under special circumstances.Sandbags distributed by the city are not for resale. Residents must show a ...

Bilingual teacher in San Jose Unified wins county recognition

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

A teacher whose 30-year career has spanned three continents was named Santa Clara County Teacher of the Year for the San Jose Unified School District.Claudia Monsalvo-Montanez, a two-way bilingual immersion  teacher at Bachrodt Elementary School, was honored by the Santa Clara County Office of Education on Oct. 23 as part of the annual Teacher Recognition Celebration. A total of 30 teachers representing the county’s school districts received honors this year.Monsalvo-Montanez has been teaching at Bachrodt for seven years in her second stint with San José Unified. From 2001 to 2003, she worked as a teacher at Anne Darling Elementary School before moving to Madrid, Spain for 13 years, where she continued to teach.She has also taught in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, the country where she grew up.“My aunt ran a nursery school in my hometown of Barranquilla,” said Monsalvo-Montanez in a statement. “And every summer when I was on vacation, I would go there and try to support the Englis...

New programs give Santa Clara County teens healthy career options

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

Leigh High School student Isiah McGee had both personal and pragmatic reasons for enrolling in the new electrical vehicle program offered by the Metropolitan Education District.As to the former, he told those assembled for the program’s grand opening celebration on Oct. 27 he was inspired to learn how to repair and maintain EVs by watching his dad fix his own truck and work on other people’s cars. As to the latter, he said, “Regular school wasn’t doing it for me.”The Metropolitan Education District, aka MetroEd, launched the EV program along with a nursing careers program at its San Jose campus to help Santa Clara County students who don’t thrive in a regular classroom setting find a career path, focusing on two job sectors where the demand for employees currently outstrips the supply. The grand opening marked the first new programs at MetroEd since 2017.“MetroEd saw the real-world trend in emerging sectors like EVs,” said Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who led the effo...

Saratoga restaurateurs causing a stir in Santa Cruz Mountains

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

Angelo Heropoulos, owner of Hero Ranch Kitchen and Flowers Restaurant in Saratoga, has taken over the storefront most recently occupied by Pasta Armellino, which shuttered in October. It will now serve as an event space for the catering arm of Hero Ranch Kitchen, which is run by Sarah Sotello. She says they are already busy with bookings.Chef Peter Armellino of the Michelin-starred Plumed Horse founded Pasta Armellino, specializing in fresh house-made pasta and sauces, in 2018. He opened the first location in Saratoga in the space formerly occupied by East Coast Alice. Prior to that it housed Casa de Cobre (by Andrew Welch), and from 1977 to 1996, Le Mouton Noir, founded by Don Durante. While Pasta Armellino in Saratoga offered dinner counter service and takeout only, the Campbell location at The Pruneyard, 1875 S Bascom Ave., is still open daily, 11:30 a.m.- 9 p.m., for dine-in and takeout, serving lunch and dinner.Remember Ristorante Da Mario, one of Saratoga’s favorite Italian re...

Supervisor seeks broader use of AI to help prevent wildfires

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

As local officials work to install sensors along the Los Gatos Creek watershed that use artificial intelligence to detect wildfires, Santa Clara County Supervisor Otto Lee is a recommending that these sensors be installed across the county’s wildland urban interface.The Saratoga-based FireSafe Council is working with San Jose Water to install 10 sensors across 6,000 acres in the watershed in an effort to protect the water source for millions of Santa Clara County residents.The solar-powered sensors, which come from the technology company N5 Sensors, measure gas, particulate matter and heat. AI then analyzes that data to detect where small fires may be before they spread. These data also make their way to an interactive dashboard to provide visualization of the sensor data and fire alerts.These sensors “cover more ground broadly, and can spot fires sooner and earlier, particularly in the smoldering phases of fire right when there isn’t even a visible flame,” said Seth Schalet, CEO of...

Latest line: A good week for Gavin Newsom, a bad week for Meta

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

Gavin NewsomCalifornia governor scores a high-profile meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, days after meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and victims’ families and survivors of the Hamas terrorist attacks. Prelude to a 2028 White House run?    MetaFacebook’s parent company is sued by 41 states, including California, who say the company collects data on children without parents’ consent, and runs features on Instagram and Facebook that addict kids to its platforms.   CruiseDMV officials order the self-driving taxi company, owned by GM, off San Francisco roads after accidents with emergency vehicles and traffic jams. But the robo-taxis could be allowed back if problems are corrected. 

De Anza College faculty, students begin push to discuss renaming school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

CUPERTINO — De Anza College is the latest Bay Area institution where students, faculty and community members are pushing for a name change to honor indigenous people who were harmed and pushed out by Spanish colonizers several centuries ago.Founded in 1967, De Anza College was named after Juan Bautista de Anza — an 18th century Spanish military officer who led two expeditions to California. The first from Spanish-controlled Mexico, which is now Arizona, to Southern California, and a second from the south to the San Francisco Bay where he established a presidio and a mission.Students, faculty and staff from the college recently began circulating a petition asking administrators to consider changing the De Anza name, which they said “covers up the disaster that he and the process of Spanish colonization would bring upon the indigenous people.”“The missions soon became bases from which the Spanish priests and military officers could exercise control over t...

Runners take on 48th annual Marine Corps Marathon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:00 GMT

Marine Corps Marathon runners on Oct. 29, 2023. (WTOP Traffic Center) Marine Corps Marathon runners on Oct. 29, 2023. (WTOP Traffic Center) The 48th annual Marine Corps Marathon began early Sunday morning with runners making their way through parts of Virginia and D.C. It’s one of the biggest marathons nationwide and in the world, with the nickname “The People’s Marathon.”More than 20,000 people are taking part in the 26.2 mile stretch around the nation’s capital.WTOP’s Shayna Estulin was talking with runners and those lining up on the race route to cheer on the runners hitting the course.Here’s what you need to know.Riding Metro to the MarathonRoad ClosuresParking RestrictionsWhere to WatchOne of thos...