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Jeannette Close has been named the associate publisher at New SV Media and will head up all advertising and circulation at the Gilroy Dispatch, the Morgan Hill Times and the Hollister Free Lance. She is based out of the Gilroy Dispatch office in downtown Gilroy.

GOOD ON YA Gilroy’s remodeled Goodwill store at 856 First St. not only looks like a Ross or Marshall’s but has the first free employment service station in Silicon Valley to help people find jobs. The WORKCONNECT Employment Resource Center opened June 9 and Mayor Roland Velasco cut the ribbon in front of a packed house. The center will have full time staff and will give free employment workshops, online job search training, job training, resume help and offers a computer lab. The center is open weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. but closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch.

The inaugural Fifth Street Live concert drew lively crowds to downtown Gilroy on Friday, June 19.

FLAME ON

by Zachery Hilton

The Gilroy Chamber of Commerce and Fact Fitness celebrated the opening of the new location on 7433 Monterey Street in downtown Gilroy during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday.

For over 20 years Kimberlee Rossi, owner of Leedo Art & Framing has been making Gilroy a bit more arty. The sign above the store at 7436 Monterey St. sums it up: “Because the earth without art is just eh!” a play on the letters in earth.

Gilroy’s Class of 2017 tallied record numbers in diplomas and scholarship dollars, including nearly a quarter of a million dollars from a mystery donor known only as “Uvas Creek.”

The scaffolding along the old Hall’s Building at Sixth Street in downtown Gilroy has come down as the transformation of the former clothing store into a restaurant with housing above continues apace.

The mother of a boy with a rare, non-contagious disease who was kicked out of the pool at Gilroy Gardens, said she’s happy and positive after meeting with the park’s general manager.