Milpitas Historical Society Board Members Harriett McGuire, President, and Mabel Mattos, Membership (shown above), both long-time residents and socially active participants in Milpitas community life, were honored as nominees for the Milpitas 2012 Citizen of the Year at the Knights of Columbus St. John the Baptist Parish-sponsored event on Saturday, April 14, which awarded the [...]
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Grammy Award Winner and Milpitas Historical Society Vice President Bill Hare was presented Milpitas’s first Artist of the Year award at the City Council meeting on February 21, 2012, by Mayor Jose Esteves.
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By Steve Munzel, President Milpitas is poised at a very important point in our history. For the first time, our city purchased land for use as a park. What will be done with that new parkland on Main Street is now being decided. Generally, our neighborhood parks are all cut from the same mold: there [...]
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By Steve Munzel, Historical Society President In 1990, Shapell Industries granted The Milpitas Historical Society $100,000 to be used to restore the Alviso Adobe. In 1992, the Society used some of the money to buy a tarp to put over the leaky roof of the adobe. In 2008, the Society used more of the money [...]
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