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Holiday parade a wonderful event driven by generous donations of time and effort

Gilroy's game against Harbor can be summed up in one word: Dominate.

GILROY — North Monterey County didn’t beat Gilroy. Gilroy beat itself.

The Gilroy cross country team got a taste of what to expect at the Central Coast Section Championships this year.

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.