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A four-foot high column of newspapers sits in the San Juan Bautista Historical Society's Luck Museum.

On Dec. 8, approximately 100 people, most of them students, spent the morning putting Sobrato High School's Future Farmers of America farm facility into working order. From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., almost 80 students worked to create planter boxes for vegetable trials in partnership with local growers. They also landscaped the farm area, did routine maintenance on the facilities, and planned future facilities.

Referring to the U.S.D.O.T. Secretary’s announcement of the federal government investigation of the California High Speed Rail Association’s SuperMassive Black Hole Bullet Train, taxpayers deserve truth-in-transportation, which we are not getting from public sector transit advocates, e.g., CAHSRA high speed rail Trojan Horse Monstrosity. Taxpayers...

Le Truong graduates Thao Le Truong, of Morgan Hill, earned an Associate of Science degree with studies in Business Administration from Georgia State University during the fall 2022 semester. Georgia State University, an enterprising urban public research university, is a national leader in graduating students from...

As Santa Clara County grapples with growing numbers of deaths from overdoses of fentanyl and other opioids, the Behavioral Health Services Department is deploying a comprehensive set of initiatives to prevent overdose deaths in local communities, says a press release from the county. A key...

While watching the nationally anticipated total solar eclipse Monday morning atop the downtown Morgan Hill parking garage using a crudely constructed “pinhole projector,” Times staff ran into a handful of sky watchers who had a similar idea but with better equipment.Andrew Remer, a Morgan Hill resident, used some household items to create a “last minute” solar lens for his Nikon Coolpix camera, which he set up on a tripod to capture crisp, clear images of the crescent-shaped sun as the moon partially obscured its light during the Aug. 21 eclipse.“At the last minute, I scrambled around looking for my old welding helmet,” Remer explained. “I removed and cleaned the lens and cut up a Snapple bottle. It just happened to fit perfectly. I pushed the lens through (the end of the bottle) and added some duct tape to keep out excess light and, voila, I had a cheap and easy solar lens for (my) camera in five minutes.”Other eclipse watchers at the downtown garage used certified viewing glasses that allowed them to stare directly at the event. Times staff settled with a pinhole projector made out of two paper plates, one with a small hole that illuminated a live image of the moon’s shadow crossing in front of the sun as seen from Earth.In Morgan Hill and most of the U.S., Monday’s total solar eclipse was only partially visible, and not without eye protection or a safe viewing device.A narrow swath across the lower 48 states, commonly referred to as the “path of totality,” saw the full effect of the solar eclipse as those areas descended briefly into mid-day darkness at the peak.

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