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File Photo by Carolyn Knight The Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society is encouraging local residents to join the Great Backyard Bird Count Feb. 17-20. Great Backyard Bird Count The Santa Clara Valley Audubon

Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group Andrea Mackenzie and Charlotte Graham of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority walk through a 60-acre property the organization acquired in Santa Clara County’s Coyote Valley in

Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group People walk by food trucks at the Wine Festival along Murphy Avenue in downtown Sunnyvale last June. City council unanimously voted Feb. 7 to move ahead with converting

Photo by Jacqueline Ramseyer Blacksmith Lester Markarian talks about the tools that are on display inside William T. Baer’s restored blacksmith shop at McClellan Ranch Preserve in this file photo. In the foreground

Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group Andrea Mackenzie and Charlotte Graham of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority walk through a 60-acre property the organization acquired in Santa Clara County’s Coyote Valley in

Staff and board members from Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) pose with local climate action leaders at the five-year anniversary reception last May for the Sunnyvale-based nonprofit. SVCE provides green energy to 13

(Photo courtesy San Jose City College) As of the first day of spring semester classes, both Evergreen Valley College and San Jose City College showed significant enrollment growth compared to last year. Local

A $28,409 Safe, Clean Water Program grant from Valley Water in 2020 allowed the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy to lead 20 field trips where 562 students learned about riparian corridors, pollution prevention and

A $28,409 Safe, Clean Water Program grant from Valley Water in 2020 allowed the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy to lead 20 field trips where 562 students learned about riparian corridors, pollution prevention and