Community

A group of Gilroy volunteers are on their way to securing South County’s first year-round, overnight homeless shelter, thanks to a $25,000 grant and another matching grant for up to an additional $25,000 from the philanthropic Sobrato Family Foundation.

Michael Doty is the new Santa Clara County Undersheriff, following the retirement in late December of former Undersheriff Dalia Rodriguez.  Doty’s return to the local sheriff’s office follows a “distinguished career and a brief retirement,” says a press release from Sheriff Robert Jonsen’s office.  “Doty's decision...

Gilroy might have a new claim to fame in the world of specialty foods if Jeff Martin brings home a 2014 Good Food Award this January, thanks to an orchard of nearly 3,500 olive trees growing in the rural outskirts of town.

The same creative character partially responsible for the mystical-looking 48-by-25-foot garlic mural inscribed on the back cement wall of the 9Lives Club in downtown Gilroy is at it again – only this time he’s got a posse.

Gilroy's farmland might have been diminished by development, but