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The Gilroy Police Department recently responded to a variety of crimes, including battery, peeping or prowling and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person.  Arrests were recorded in the GPD blotter May 21 through 28. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

For Gavilan College graduate Michael Treviño, an initiative to get more students to law school is personal. Treviño was the first in his family to go to college. He attended community college before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, and eventually went to law school at the University of Washington. Treviño is now the director of undergraduate admissions for the University of California system.

Roughly 100 community members descended on the Gavilan Hills Cemetery the morning of May 26, not to set up tents or chairs for the parade later that day, but to remember Gilroy’s honored dead and countless other who perished fighting in foreign wars.

Described by supporters as a “catalyst behind restoring Gilroy’s choral music program,” an educator who “instills character,” “dedicated” and “truly a hard act to follow” a Garlic Capital’s revered choir director whose melodies enchanted the lives and hearts of thousands of youth singers will have a lasting legacy.

Starting fall 2014, Gilroy Unified School District bus riders will have the chance to hop aboard a converted, $150,000 solar assisted and electric powered school bus.

A California Historic Landmark whose waters have historically allured visitors to Gilroy with “amazing curative properties” has crew of restoration volunteers and State Parks maintenance crews adding preservation to 50-plus years of deferred maintenance.

GILROY—If you like golf and you like soccer, the Gavilan College Golf Course has just the thing for you.

Mixology is making a twist in downtown Gilroy.

For the majority of his football career, Bryan Smith got out of the huddle before putting his hands underneath the butt of Jose Rodriguez.

Free adoption days are here again.