November 11, 2004     San Jose, California Since 2003
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Living with Batten's: Thirteen-year-old Almaden resident Kelsie Hardin, who has juvenile Batten Disease, works in an adaptive physical education class at Rolling Hills Middle School, using games to help refine her motor skills. Batten Disease causes blindness, mental impairment, seizures, and loss of motor skills and cognitive reasoning, and is always fatal.
Battling Batten's
By Anne Ward Ernst
Almaden family living through ordeal as daughter struggles with deteriorating Batten Disease.  More
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Sports complex Complex concerns Nancy Pyle
Surprise! There's been yet another shift in fortune for the controversial McKean Road sports complex.  More Insinuations continue to fly back and forth between the city of San Jose and Santa Clara County officials, with the proposed McKean Road sports complex serving as the ball in this intergovernmental tennis match.  More A week after the Nov. 2 election, Almaden and Blossom valley residents still don't know—for sure—who will represent their communities on the San Jose City Council next year.  More
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Battling Batten's: Almaden family living through ordeal
News

The building of fields to be delayed until spring

Nancy Pyle's lead growing as county registrar slowly gets all votes counted

County counsel chides city for dismissing legitimate concerns

Measure S appears to have passed but ballots are still left to be counted

Typo postpones public hearing on Winfield Blvd. connector bridge

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Letters & Opinions

Letters

Bryant: City continues to evade requests for information

Cartoon: DeCinzo

Neighbors

Almaden Valley children make up a minority of Castillero's student body

Student-generated art to grace Blue and Gold Auction literature

Young brothers making a go at website design business from their home base

Perkins on Real Estate

Sports

Bruins fall to first-place Eagles

Chargers celebrate Tillman dedication with clutch victory

Clutch wins get Chargers into CCS volleyball playoffs

Trudeau leads Leigh's big win over Pioneer

Leland girls make a return trip to section polo playoffs

Pioneer's Delay runs well at finals

Tanaka earns a place in the CCS tennis tournament at Courtside

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