Edenvale News

By Tracy Seipel, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Nov. 02--After almost four hours of discussion, including plenty of enthusiastic feedback from the public, the San Jose City Council gave a unanimous thumbs up Tuesday night to a new blueprint that outlines the way San Jose should grow over the next three decades.

After last week's difficult budget vote, we turn this week to Mayor Chuck Reed's fiscal emergency plan, which would drastically reduce retirement benefits for employees and retirees.

Samuel Rufino Mendoza, 20, of San Jose is a suspect in two armed robberies: Bonfare Market, 1090 Leigh Avenue, on Tuesday, and 6 to Midnight, 5662 Monterey Road, on Thursday.

When San Jose's tap water turned up last week on an environmental group's list for having among the highest levels of the cancer-causing chemical chromium-6, alarmed residents started calling their water companies and California's two senators began calling for new safety standards.

The Levin Clubhouse of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley is hopping, with pingpong balls flying, foosball games raging and dozens of kids shouting and calling for the attention of a crew of unflappable staffers.