Santa Clara County: Don’t take chances, even if you feel fine Did you know Santa Clara County has one of the highest rates of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in the country? It’s true. But it doesn’t have to remain that way, according to officials with the County of Santa Clara’s Public Health Department. LTBI and...

Federal Clean Water Act focuses on stormwater runoff No one likes seeing litter snagged in the willows edging the creeks winding through the County of Santa Clara’s parks. But that’s exactly what they’d see every time were it not for the federal Clean Water Act and the County workers who enforce it.  The County of...

Do it for your yard, garden — and planet Summer is a time of rapid growth in your yard and garden. What better time to attend one of the many composting workshops and start that compost pile you’ve been thinking about for years? Luckily, there are several backyard composting workshops scheduled conveniently throughout Santa Clara...

Summer activities offer fun, affordable ways to spend days Opportunities for adventure, entertainnment and enlightenment abound in the long days of summer stretching out before us like a beach blanket. Many of us have already made our bigger plans — a trip to Lake Tahoe, or to see relatives in Pennsylvania, maybe a cruise to...

World War II turned Patrick Joice into an unlikely cowboy, forcing him to grow up on what is now preserved as historic Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch at Santa Teresa County Park in south San Jose.

Respected leaders fight fear, mistrust, apathy The Santa Clara County Office of the Census has spent months preparing “trusted messengers” to help hard-to-count populations understand it’s in their communities’ interest to fill out next year’s federal Census 2020 form. With distrust of the federal government soaring among many immigrant groups, the County knows it is...