Santa Clara County Bulletin Board

San Jose’s pending RFAs & UFAs

The San Jose Sharks have decisions to make. Players like Kevin Labanc and Devin Cooley are UFAs, while Thomas Bordeleau, Luke Kunin and more are RFAs.

Eklund Talks Minor Injury, Zetterlund Brings Him Coffee

William Eklund started his season slow, but by the end of it, showed why he’s a big part of the San Jose Sharks’ future. Points aren’t everything, but it’s a decent thumbnail for the 21-year-old f...

Culture Night Market today

The Guadalupe River Park Conservancy is hosting a Culture Night Market today right outside Little Italy in Downtown San Jose. The free event includes live music, a soccer tournament, a screening o...

Granlund, Blackwood Lead 2023-24 Sharks’ Micro-Stats (+)

How bad have the San Jose Sharks been this year? Let me count the ways – literally. All season, third-party data tracker SPORTLOGiQ – which is used by virtually every team in the NHL – has sent me...

Grier on How To Improve Sharks, Will Smith Update, Still Evaluating Quinn

Mike Grier has a couple ideas about how to make the San Jose Sharks better next season. Of course, the Sharks can’t get much worse, right? Their .287 Points % is the second-worst of the salary cap...

Couture Shares Hopeful Timeline for Return to Skating, Game Action

Logan Couture is hoping that his nightmare season doesn’t repeat itself next year. Couture played just six games this season in January, hampered by a deep groin issue, revealed to be Osteitis pub...

Viva CalleSJ: SoFA to the Streets (San Jose's SoFA, SCC Fairgrounds, and Martial Cottle Park)

Viva CalleSJ is back for it's 1st event of the 2024! Miles of city streets will be completely shut down to let people walk, run, dance, bike, unicycle, skateboard, or hoverboard down the streets o...

YA Friday: Six Years Later…

It's been SIX years since the first YA Friday post. Since then, there have been over 300 uninterrupted weeks of YA recommendations, 70 monthly wrap-ups, over 3,750 recommended books, and over 30,0...

Quick bites: Sharks couldn’t break 20 wins this season

This was a tough season for Sharks fans and that 5-1 loss to the Calgary Flames in game 82 certainly didn’t help. The loss kept the Sharks just below that 20-win mark, a number that didn’t mean mu...

Sharks Locker Room: What Type of Player Should San Jose Target This Off-Season?

When you’re the worst team in the NHL, there’s a lot wrong with you. But if I were to start with one thing for the San Jose Sharks to focus on this off-season, after they ended their year with a 5...

2024 Volunteers of the Year – Branches T-W

Tully Community Branch Library – Helen Pham Helen Pham has been a Teens Reach volunteer at Tully Branch since April 2022 and has been a regular face at the library almost every week. She has an ea...

2024 Volunteers of the Year – Branches J-S

2024 Volunteers of the Year - Branches J-S at San Jose Public Library

2024 Volunteers of the Year – Branches E-H

2024 Volunteers of the Year - Branches E-H at San Jose Public Library

2024 Volunteers of the Year – Branches C-D

2024 Volunteers of the Year - Branches C-D at San Jose Public Library

2024 Volunteers of the Year – Branches A-B

2024 Volunteers of the Year - Branches A-B at San Jose Public Library

Saturday 4/20: Hands Off Iran: San Jose Emergency Action

Military recruitment offices, 2326 McKee Rd, San Jose

Eye-catching residential towers could rise near Valley Fair and Santana Row

If there ever was an area ripe for high-rise development outside of Downtown it would be right around our shopping mecca of Valley Fair and Santana Row. While it has limited transit, the area is f...

Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System

Fifty years ago, PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system.

Sharks at Flames (game 82): Lines, game thread and how to watch

We made it Sharks fans! Game 82 of the season and we’re still standing. We’re still here. This is a meaningless game with no playoff implications or, in the case of the Sharks, no draft implicatio...

Nightmare Season Over: Granlund Hits 60 Points, But Sharks Lose 5-1

The San Jose Sharks visit Scotiabank Saddledome to take on the Calgary Flames. Fabian Zetterlund scored, but the Sharks lost 5-1. Period 1 7 in: Gushchin tracks him down a Flame, I think Klapka, t...

Zadina Still Looking for Consistency, And Not Just With Scoring

It was an up-and-down first season with the San Jose Sharks for Filip Zadina. Will the pending RFA return next year? "Guys who have been drafted where he was, the expectations are so high," head c...

These Scouts Believe Will Smith Is NHL-Ready

Three scouts, all from outside the San Jose Sharks organization, think that Will Smith is ready for the NHL. “I don’t see why not,” Scout #1 told San Jose Hockey Now. “He has nothing left to prove...

Preview/Lines #82: Los Gatos Vs. Gilroy in Calgary, Quinn Praises Burroughs’s Leadership

David Quinn praised Kyle Burroughs’s leadership today. When asked about how Mikael Granlund and Luke Kunin have emerged as leaders in the Sharks room after the Tomas Hertl trade and Logan Couture ...

Middle School Resources at the Library: 6-8th Grade

Need an extra hand with homework, craving music to ignite your study session, or would you rather be reading comics? How about racking up those community service hours or scoring a free ride to yo...

Movie Reviews!

By Neha N., Grade 9   The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes The Hunger Games Recently, I watched the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie, a prequel to the 3 known and loved Hunger Games books (wh...

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Our Obsession with Beauty

By Priya T., 9th Grade Most people spend their entire lives working to achieve something. They will spend every maddening minute striving for an end game - whether that be retiring, starting a fam...

City Council 2024 Priorities Community Update Series:

Climate Change & Natural Environment - Protection & AdaptationAt the start of each year, the City Council selects priorities to focus on, and as of 2023, also approve objectives that advan...

The silver lining behind Camino Brewing's closure

No one wants to see a popular business shut down in San Jose. Sadly Camino Brewing Co. announced that they were closing their operations last week. Fortunately, there is a silver lining... the spa...

No Tech for Genocide Sit-In and Demo at Google Offices in Sunnyvale, Arrests

Angry Google employees and supporters protested at the giant search engine's offices in Sunnyvale yesterday. Same day demonstrations were also held in San Francisco, Seattle and New York City. The...

Lower your water bill with a Valley Water laundry-to-landscape graywater rebate

Did you know you can save thousands of gallons of water and money on your water bill every year by reusing the water from your washing machine? A laundry-to-landscape graywater system is the perfe...

Visit Santa Clara County Parks for FREE

Everyone Belongs at Parks Santa Clara County has over 20 parks. In order to reduce financial barriers to access, Santa Clara County Parks is partnering with San José Public Library, Santa Clara Co...

Barracuda Sign Five for 2024-25, Scout Likes New Goalie Carriere (+)

The San Jose Barracuda have already started to put together their 2024-25 team. Last Friday, the Barracuda announced that they had signed goaltender Gabriel Carriere, defenseman Jeremie Bucheler, ...

SJHN Daily: Leonard Stays in School, Will Smith Next? Kunin Is Sharks’ King Clancy Nominee

Ryan Leonard isn't coming out, does that mean the same for Will Smith? Today, the Washington Capitals announced that the 2023 eighth-overall pick is staying at Boston College another year. Preside...

Weekly City Manager Updates: April 15, 2024

City Manager Ed Shikada shares brief updates at each Council meeting, highlighting details about upcoming events, City services, and City Council discussions planned. His comments are summarized t...

San Jose's Tech CU Area will host a new MMA event series

Tech CU Arena is owned by the San Jose Sharks and home of the San Jose Barracuda. However, the newly expanded center is able to host a variety of events. A pair Bay Area combat sports veterans hav...

Quick bites: Sharks help Oilers prep for playoffs

The San Jose Sharks lost to the Edmonton Oilers 9-2. Fabian Zetterlund and Daniil Gushchin scored for the Sharks. Connor McDavid got his 100th assist.

Sharks Locker Room: Will Things Get Any Better Next Year?

This season can’t end soon enough for the San Jose Sharks. In their penultimate game this year, the Sharks were embarrassed 9-2 against the Edmonton Oilers. It was their seventh defeat of six-or-m...

Greg Wyshynski on When Sharks Will Make Playoffs Again, Why Grier Should Be GM of the Year

This week on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, we welcome ESPN senior NHL writer Greg Wyshynski! Greg recently made the case for Mike Grier for GM of the Year, and we had to dive into that, given s...

Penguins Miss Playoffs: Sharks Likely To Have Two 2024 Draft Lottery Picks

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ loss is the San Jose Sharks’ gain. The San Jose Sharks acquired Pittsburgh’s 2024 first-round pick, top-10 protected, as part of last August’s Erik Karlsson trade. The rei...

San Jose's Raging Waters is coming back better than ever

After a lot of drama, Raging Waters will reopen this summer after all. San Jose has approved California Dreamin' Entertainment as the operator of the Lake Cunningham water park. Raging waters...