[4] For a short time in 1959 it was renamed the Sunnyvale Standard and the Daily Mountain View Register Leader.
[8] In 2005, Cohen sold Silicon Valley Community Newspapers to Knight Ridder, though he stayed on as publisher and chief executive for the SVCN papers.
[9] In 2006, Knight Ridder was purchased by McClatchy Co.,[10] which immediately sold SVCN and the San Jose Mercury News to MediaNews Group.
Silicon Valley Community Newspapers and the Sunnyvale Sun are published as part of the San Jose Mercury News.
In 2014, Alia Wilson of the Sun won a John Swett Award for Media Excellence for her story “The force behind Fremont,” and Sun editor Chris Vongsarath, won for his story “Help is here.”[13] The Sun received an honorable mention in the category of Best Feature Photo in the 2017 California Better Newspapers Contest.