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Ella Oetinger sparkled for the Christopher High soccer team for four years.  In the 2024-25 season, the senior captain led the Cougars back to the elite level with a 14-6-3 overall record, a 6-2-2 second-place finish, two playoffs wins and a Central Coast Section Division...

Local wrestler Adam Mena takes second while representing

In preparing for more than 100,000 visitors to descend on the Garlic Capital for three days of eating, dancing and wearing funny garlic hats, the minutiae associated with executing an event of this magnitude is a story unto itself.

Gilroy native Dustin Wolf, whose family lived in Morgan Hill during his early years and whose extended family includes many Live Oak alumni, has starred in the American Hockey League and competed in 18 games for the National Hockey League’s Calgary Flames. Wolf has twice...

Gilroy’s field hockey team wasn’t done after losing a heartbreaker to Archbishop Mitty in the Central Coast Section semifinals Nov. 13.

Earlier this year on a Sunday afternoon in January, Morgan Hill Sgt. Troy Hoefling was serving as day shift watch commander when he went to patrol the city’s new downtown parking garage. There had been prior complaints of delinquent behavior on the upper levels. When the 27-year-veteran drove to the fourth floor he noticed a teenage girl sitting on the ledge and a dog tethered nearby. He called out, but she replied with a blank stare. Once near her, he noticed cuts on her wrist that were still bleeding. Still not communicating with him, Hoefling acted quickly and grabbed onto the girl and pulled her from the ledge, saving a potential teen suicide.

Coming home has never been so bittersweet for Patty