Monthly Archives: April 2014

I received a telephone call last week from the receptionist of a local business who had questions about a hummingbird nest outside her office window. The hummingbird had built a nest in a camellia tree and laid two eggs, which had hatched two days before. However, the mother hummer had not been seen since, and her entire office was worried about the baby birds.

GILROY — Nothing was going to stop the Avis Kelley Invitational from going on Saturday: Not the rain, not the condemned bleachers and not the semipro football game scheduled for that night.

Postal workers in Santa Clara County are expressing discontent with a contracted partnership between the U.S. Postal Service and Staples, where USPS products and services are offered at Staples stores across the country.

VIRGINA BEACH, VA. — March was quite a month for Gilroy’s Paul Fox.

SALINAS — Seven Gilroy-area ballers will get their chance to shine once more this season as they take the court for the 7th Annual North-South High School All-Star Basketball Classic Friday at the Boys and Girls Club in Salinas.

It’s a drizzly morning in the South Valley. Despite the rain, hundreds of well-dressed teenagers and young adults trek from the Gilroy Gardens parking lot to the main gates, following signs that bear the words: “Job fair.”

About a week ago, I came to a startling realization. I should not be in the kitchen. Ever. Or at least not with fire involved - as in, not with fire that occurs in the kitchen in the form of a stovetop.

ANNIVERSARY

Metro Newspapers, owner and publisher of Metro Silicon Valley, purchased four MainStreet Media Group weeklies including the Gilroy Dispatch, Morgan Hill Times, Hollister Free Lance and Santa Cruz Good Times.