The big daily newspaper’s onslaught against Willow Glen continued Monday morning with a needlessly negative article about warring neighbors and a “junkyard” on the eastern half of Willow Glen Way. The article actually relates an important story about the City of San Jose’s long-running legal battle with one of your neighbors. The problem could have been expressed without bashing the neighborhood, but the paper couldn’t pass up the chance:

The turmoil has boiled over into a full-fledged neighborhood controversy.

Willow Glen is a tightly knit community. Homeowners take pride in the area’s reputation as a safe, family-friendly corner of San Jose. It’s a place where the lawns are manicured and the streets are mostly free of potholes.

But it’s also a place where residents lash out at their neighbors for having a portable basketball hoop on the street or call the police when someone cuts down a tree on private property.

“Full-fledged neighborhood controversy” …. ? The aforementioned basketball hoop and the current blight incident had not been previously reported in any neighborhood media outlet (not WGx, not the WG Times, not the WG Resident), nor has the issue come before a neighborhood assocation or even been the subject any notable prior discussion on the WGNA eList.

The City of San Jose has said that the tree-cutting incident was illegal and so is the backyard junkyard, as clarified by City Attorney Rick Doyle. So too, the streetside basketball hoop, which was only news because of the City’s pending NCAA hosting duties.

Right or wrong, these incidents occur everywhere …. but they are apparently only “news” in Willow Glen.

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