Fast-moving Butte County wildfire forces evacuations; Bay Area crews join the fight – NBC Bay Area
[ad_1] A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California has forced thousands of residents to flee their homes and already has reached at least one neighborhood, destroying multiple structures. The Thompson Fire in Butte County erupted near Oroville just before 11 a.m. Tuesday and by Wednesday morning had grown to more than 3,500 acres, with zero containment, […]
Milpitas is new home to what’s being billed as world’s largest recycling plant – The Mercury News
[ad_1] MILPITAS — With conveyor belts whirring and new equipment gleaming, a Phoenix-based recycling and trash-hauling company on Thursday opened what it is billing as the largest recycling plant in the world in the heart of Silicon Valley. Republic Services, for years known as BFI, christened the $55 million facility on Dixon Landing Road in […]
Aviat Networks is Moving Its HQ From the Bay Area to Austin
[ad_1] Shutterstock Many of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies — like Apple, Facebook and Google — have established major offices in Austin. But fewer companies have scaled back in California to move their headquarters here. Yet that’s exactly what Aviat Networks did. The formerly Milpitas-based company announced the move on Monday, claiming that the move will help Aviat Networks […]
Man walking on I-880 in Milpitas struck and killed – SFGATE
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Tech Roundup: Omnicell Announces Move to Milpitas After Google Evicts Them, Cisco Shares Fall with Weak Sales Outlook, and More
[ad_1] The Silicon Valley-San Jose Business Journal reported this week that Google is evicting one of its tenants, Omnicell, from the 120,000-square-foot Palo Alto space it previously leased to them, once the lease is up at the end of this month. That spells good news for Milpitas, though – Omnicell has announced that the company […]
Looking back at the Ford Motor Company plant in Milpitas
[ad_1] It was 1955 when the Ford Motor Company plant first opened in Milpitas. This move set the stage for a total transformation in town, bringing forth a new era of housing and retail development to replace the once-prominent hay fields, swamplands, and walnut trees that made up Milpitas. The Ford plant closed down on […]
Some progress battling blaze in hills east of Milpitas – SFGATE
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Former Cupertino librarian named a mover and shaker
[ad_1] FLASH SALE Don’t miss this deal Standard Digital Access $1 for 1 year Already a subscriber? Login Clare Varesio, seen here in 2017 after being named community librarian for the Cupertino Library, was among the Movers and Shakers Award-winners recognized in this month’s Library Journal. Librarian shakes things up A former Cupertino Library employee […]
No, Micron isn't moving to Milpitas – Idaho Business Review
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Henry Robinson: a quiet force of nature
[ad_1] It was 50 years ago when Henry Robinson first became involved with Milpitas Unified School District (MUSD). When he started as an intern back at the old Ayer High School in 1970, little did he know that over the next several decades, his life and career would evolve in ways that would make an […]