Alum Rock News

The Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury has found questionable expenses and compensation packages for trustees and superintendents in some of the county's 34 school districts.

The Boccardo Family Shelter in San Jose, Calif. is dealing with budget cuts by considering reducing its beds from 250 to 100 a night.

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed proposed Friday that the city spare popular police, fire, park and library services from the budget ax in closing a $73 million deficit and said money to pay for them will be available from revised property-tax estimates, reserves, employee pay freezes and other spending reductions.

Two young men were in critical condition and two others were less seriously wounded after four separate assaults in San Jose Saturday night, according to police.

Q What happened to the concrete dividers on Highway 101 near Alum Rock and McKee roads? I was under the impression that they were going to replace the steel barriers on 101 with concrete, which has happened elsewhere on 101.

Southern California has experienced a couple of minor earthquakes in the past couple of days.

Santa Clara County opened its juvenile hall alternative for low-level offenders to much fanfare a short three years ago.

San Jose City Manager Debra Figone's proposal Thursday to close a $77.5 million budget deficit would lay off as many as 149 employees, close libraries nearly half the week, eliminate the police mounted patrol and reduce traffic enforcement.

Two northbound lanes of Interstate Highway 680 in San Jose were closed this morning after a car spun out into sand barrels and blocked the Alum Rock off-ramp, the California Highway Patrol said.

There were some very young freshmen at community colleges in San Jose today as hundreds of kindergarteners had their first day of college.

Every day on her commute, Marcela Toscano watches the transformation of a vacant lot in the Mayfair neighborhood near Interstate 680, excitedly tracking the progress of the school her son will attend starting in late summer.

If someone with cable cutters can slice critical fiber-optic lines - and cripple communications for thousands of people - what kind of damage could Mother Nature do? Thursday's act of sabotage left Morgan Hill, Gilroy and parts of Santa Cruz and San Benito counties without land lines, cell phones and Internet connections.

Magnitude 4.3 - regional moment magnitude Time Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:40:29 AM Distance from Morgan Hill, CA - 18 km N Seven Trees, CA - 19 km E Alum Rock, CA - 20 km ESE San Jose City Hall, CA - 25 km ESE Web Link Posted by Claudette McDermott, a resident of the Del Prado neighborhood, 23 hours ago I heard about it on the TV news this ...

An earthquake has hit California today. According to reports it was minor but some in the community felt some pretty big movements.

The Internet is buzzing with activity this afternoon after several news sources reported an earthquake in California's South Bay.

A new award has been set up to recognize local efforts to conserve water has been presented.

The city of San Jose has reached a tentative agreement with the school district to build a permanent home for a charter school in the Mayfair neighborhood.

Reaching out beyond the usual neighborhood project, local Boy Scout Jeremy Edwards thought SJ's Alum Rock Park needed a new fence.

A community meeting is being held tonight in San Jose's Alum Rock neighborhood to address concerns surrounding the performance of area schools.

San Jose city and school officials are expected to announce today a tentative deal that would use $1 million in redevelopment funds that had been set aside for a park to provide a permanent site for a new charter middle school in the city's struggling East Side.