{"id":398186,"date":"2026-07-14T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398186\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:16:08","slug":"renovated-basketball-courts-at-san-jose-park-damaged-by-illegal-fireworks-officials-say-kion-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398186\/","title":{"rendered":"Renovated basketball courts at San Jose park damaged by illegal fireworks, officials say \u2013 KION Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim  Fang<\/p>\n<p>A planned ribbon cutting at a newly renovated park in the South Bay is on hold due to vandalism, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services announced Monday that the basketball courts at Plata Arroyo Park in East San Jose were damaged. Officials said the damage appeared to have been caused by illegal fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur teams worked hard to bring these courts back for the community. Seeing them damaged before they could even be celebrated is incredibly disappointing,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Monday that staff are assessing the damage and determining if repairs to the courts are possible. Additional details about the incident were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to email <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kioncentralcoast.com\/news\/2026\/07\/14\/renovated-basketball-courts-at-san-jose-park-damaged-by-illegal-fireworks-officials-say\/mailto:park.concerns@sanjoseca.gov\">park.concerns@sanjoseca.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KION 46 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kion546.com\/about\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kioncentralcoast.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tim Fang A planned ribbon cutting at a newly renovated park in the South Bay is on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-398186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}