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Gilroy Demonstration Garden is slated to hold its annual plant sale on April 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For sale are organic vegetable, herb, flower and heirloom seeds and seedlings for your garden in spring or summer.

If you haven’t purchased your ticket for the Wineries of Santa Clara Valley’s Spring Passport Weekend, do it. Early sales are on an all-time record pace for the biannual event, according to one of the organizers.

Rich sauce drizzling over marshmallows and glistening under bright kitchen lights smells like chocolate – pounds of chocolate – as it falls into the silver bowl in Gilroyan Rosalind Farotte's hands.

When Korean War Veteran Joe Baldonado was posthumously awarded the military’s highest honor, it was only fitting that his younger brother, Charles, was at the White House to accept it.

Local members of a Patriots group are planning a demonstration rally on Cinco de Mayo in front of the Live Oak High School campus both before and after school to protest the latest court ruling affirming the rights of school officials to ban students from wearing American flag shirts on campus on May 5 in 2010.

Gilroyans: It might be time again to break out those umbrellas. Rain is forecast to be likely in store for Gilroy this week.

Charles Baldonado stood beside President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House for a special ceremony to honor “The Valor 24,” two dozen war veterans who were wrongfully denied the nation’s highest military honor because of prejudice.