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SAN MARTIN—Once a week, people on supervised probation or state parole can receive a free services designed to help get their lives back on track, thanks to a new pilot program that opened this week in San Martin.

GILROY—Hikers at Christmas Hill Park were in for a surprise this past weekend when they encountered a 6-foot-long python as it wriggled down from the hills into the road on Miller Avenue to warm its belly on the concrete.

GILROY—Pediatric and obstetric units at Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy will shut their doors within 90 days to cut costs in a system that has been hemorrhaging money to the tune of $100 million a year and is up for sale.

GILROY—With the driver accused of killing a Gilroy father of five on Easter Sunday behind bars and charged with murder, the victim’s coworkers are raising money to help pay $8,000 in funeral expenses.

GILROY—When Pharaoh and Twister hear their owners in distress, they’re ready to rush to their aid without hesitation. The 3-year-old German Shepherds, K9 officers with the Gilroy Police Department, race towards danger regardless of the odds and often risk their lives doing so.

At the age of 15, Aprylle Gilbert figuratively ran away from the East Coast. On May 11, she will literally run back.

GILROY— Gilroy will find out on May 5 just how much more it must cut water use in the wake of Governor Jerry Brown’s executive order last week that Californians reduce consumption by 25 percent.

Runners from all over South County tackled the 32nd annual Wildflower Run March 29 at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill.

Maggie Brinkman, a 12-year-old Brownell Middle School student, took fifth place at the 2015 Knight of Columbus Freethrow Contest state finals March 21 in Fresno.

gilroy—It’s often said that to truly understand something, you have to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. On Saturday, Gilroyans from all walks of life put those words into action—except they put themselves in someone else’s chair.