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Felicia Newell has the same interests as any other 17-year-old girl: she likes to exercise, dance and play sports. The only difference is that Newell has cerebral palsy, which Mayo Clinic defines as “a disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture that is caused by injury or abnormal development in the immature brain, most often before birth.” Her condition also resulted in a mild case of mental retardation.

After five years of working out at South Valley Middle School, Gilroy will finally have a place to call their own

Actress Helen Hayes once said, “The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

Tuesday was bittersweet for three Gilroy softball players who signed their letters of intent to play in college.

After working 18 hour days in eastern Afghanistan where he operates and repairs armored vehicles damaged by blasts from improvised explosive devices or mechanical failures, Private First Class Ryan Reynaud of Gilroy returned to base camp and was met with an unpleasant surprise: Breakfast was no longer being served in the chow hall.

Joshua Valdez is back on his feet six months after the hit-and-run accident that left him with a busted knee and traumatic brain injury, but he thinks the woman who hit him while he was walking home one night more than six months ago should have been locked up for more than a year, and supervised on probation longer than the five years the judge ordered for her at South County Courthouse Monday.

The recently completed $110 million Christopher High School is a vision of architectural excellence, but its athletic field – more or less a “pasture of dirt and natural grass in terrible shape” – is turning heads in a bad way.    

After a successful "Treats for Troops" drive last November when 761 students at Las Animas Elementary pooled approximately 554.5 pounds of candy for a good cause, they're at it again and inviting the community to join in on the sweet gesture.

Three seats on the Gavilan College Board of Trustees are up for grabs in the November election, one each in the Gilroy, Morgan Hill and San Benito County areas.