Last week, local eatery Koong’s officially closed after over four decades of serving the Milpitas community.  Henry Koong ...

Eric Shapiro is a writer and filmmaker. He wrote Macho, the forthcoming Randy Savage biopic produced by Artists for Artists, Midas Entertainment, and Range Media Partners, and Behind the Facade, a ...

NJROTC Annual Military Inspection (AMI). This is a significant occasion that assesses the program’s development and honors the cadets’ accomplishments. The inspection evaluates the effectiveness, ...

The Alviso Adobe at Milpitas' Alviso Adobe Park, where tours are given the second Saturday of every month. Sponsored by Milpitas Charity Bingo. By the middle of the 19th century, multiple branches of ...

For many residents, the most infamous aspect of Milpitas history involves the putrid odor that has spread throughout the city for years. The odor has been a longstanding concern for the community, ...

At the Performing Arts Center Groundbreaking in January. Photo courtesy of MUSD. At the end of January, the Milpitas Unified School District (MUSD) broke ground on a new Performing Arts Center at ...

As I stood in front of Milpitas City Hall, I watched as Vice Mayor Carmen Montano pulled into a parking spot. Within moments, she was out of her car and walking toward me. She was wearing a bright ...

The José Alviso Adobe principal residence of Rancho Milpitas as it appeared in 1940. (Photo by Willis Foster, Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey collection). This is the second ...

Last Saturday, The Milpitas Beat attended the world’s largest gathering of people living with Acromegaly (also called “Gigantism” in cases where the disease begins before patients have reached puberty ...

Things are starting to warm up in this year’s Milpitas election season… Bill Chuan was the first candidate to announce that he is running for Milpitas City Council. As a resident of Milpitas for the ...

I met the pragmatist in his law office last Monday. I walked in and was shocked to see that during the pandemic lockdown period, the former Milpitas City Councilmember had somehow managed to make ...