The city's "Red, White and Boom" Independence Day events will feature a pool party, barbecue, live music, and a fireworks display at Milpitas Sports Center.
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by Ian Bauer
A partial resolution to 22 City of Milpitas employee layoffs was reached last week, after officials met with representatives of the city's largest unions to discuss averting the July 1 cuts.
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As the graduation ceremony at Milpitas High School came to a close Saturday, student Shontale Taylor was granted the chance to move forward with her life.
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Yolanda Lara Higuera has seen a vast number of changes during her 28 years in education but one thing she says that has never wavered is her passion for teaching elementary school students.
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The day of reckoning came Tuesday for city workers targeted for layoffs; their hopes of being spared from the first mass job cuts in city history were not realized.
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Milpitas City Council next Tuesday will review for final adoption the city's estimated $145-million 2009-10 fiscal year budget, which threatens unprecedented layoffs of 21 full-time city employees.
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Uncertainty about their future has sullied the week for some City of Milpitas workers, as officials for the first time in memory began issuing layoff notices.
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Blaring horns from passing freight trains signaled the beginning of a ground-breaking ceremony in Milpitas Friday, ushering Bay Area Rapid Transit a step closer to the South Bay.
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by Wes Bowers
Bob Browne's enthusiasm spurred growth of Milpitas in 1960s and 1970s
by Wes Bowers
One of the best-known city leaders who continued to make contributions over a four-decade span died last week after a long battle against lymphoma and pneumonia.
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Approximately 2,500 people across the Bay Area came together June 13 to celebrate the 111th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the Philippines from Spain during the 21st annual Filipino Fiesta.
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