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Hitting, pitching and defense, oh my! Take your analogous pick of animal, whether that’s lions, tigers or bears, one thing is most certainly clear: the Sunnyvale Junior All Stars were the obvious alpha dog while playing on the eve of America’s Independence Day at Los Altos Purissima Park. Sunnyvale walloped its Ferrasci Park Little League opponents by a final of 22-4. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.

“Best day ever!” For friends Alaa, Sarah and Soonus, the last 48 hours have been a rollercoaster ride. They drove in from Orange County to watch their team, Algeria, take on Jordan in group play at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium on June 22. “We were like shaking to come, and then we got tickets, and we came as fast as we could,” said Alaa. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.

The 2026 CCS Division V Championship game for the 2026 Santa Clara Bruins varsity softball squad saw the stellar team storm past Silver Creek by a 14-8 final. Powered by a tremendous offensive attack, the Bruins scored double digits in all three of their playoff games, including a remarkable eight-run comeback to win 17-16 in extra innings against North Monterey County in the penultimate game of the season. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.

The Santa Clara Convention Center is hemorrhaging money, revealing a pattern of mismanagement that calls into question why the city isn’t pressing for answers. Oak View Group (OVG), a private event management company, manages the convention center, a 100,000 sq. ft. venue at the heart of the city’s tourism economy. The city’s destination marketing organization (DMO), Discover Santa Clara, is responsible for marketing it. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.

The romantic comedy “Almost, Maine” by American actor and playwright John Cariani runs May 22 – June 6 for eight performances on stage with the Santa Clara Players. “Almost, Maine” is set in a fictional, rural northeastern U.S. town so far north that it is almost in Canada. In nine vignettes, all set on the same cold winter’s night—with the Northern Lights illuminating the sky, mystical things happen to the town residents as they fall in and out of love and in again. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.

Sunnyvale held off on requiring landlords to compensate tenants an extra month’s rent in the event of a no-fault eviction. A 2019 state law requires landlords to pay renters a month’s rent to relocate if the landlord evicts them because of reasons beyond the renter’s control. State law requires that landlords pay tenants a month’s rent to cover relocation expenses if they’ve lived in the apartment for at least a year. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.

A tragic family confrontation has ended with the death of two brothers. Santa Clara police are still putting together the pieces, but the initial investigation has revealed that on May 8, 49-year-old Matthew Helfin of Bloomington, Ind., shot and killed his brother, 52-year-old Mark Helfin, before setting fire to a home on Enright Avenue. Matthew Helfin died a few hours later. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.

“I love loquats!” said 14-year-old Aadit Mehta, who has a loquat tree in his Santa Clara front yard. “They are very sweet, juicy, and so fresh, picked directly from the tree. That’s really the only way to eat them!” Mehta, an 8th grader at Queen of Apostles School in San Jose, turned an overabundance of a fruit he loves into a fundraiser for the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ) of Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose. Read the complete news at svvoice.com.