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Tierra Bella, Spanish for “beautiful land,” is the aptly named cycling tour hosted annually by the Almaden Cycle Touring Club of San Jose. Now in its 36th year, Tierra Bella had an estimated 2,000 riders cover about 144,000 miles through Gilroy and Morgan Hill on Saturday.

A much smaller crowd than organizers had hoped for attended the Gilroy Community Forum at the MACSA Youth Gym on IOOF Avenue Friday night. The forum was organized as a direct response to the gang-related shooting of Jesse Silos last week.

CHS and GHS spring concert: The Gilroy and Christopher High School choir programs present their spring concerts at 7:30 p.m. April 16 and 17 at Mission San Juan Bautista. $5 donation at the door.

The South Valley Middle School pool is set to sink without a trace beneath a tidal wave of concrete this summer, following a year of back-and-forth banter between the City and the Gilroy Unified School District over whether and how to keep the facility open.

A Community Forum and Peace March organized to address the issue of gang-related violence amid simmering tension over the recent homicide of Jesse Silos, 30, will be held in Gilroy on Friday and Saturday.

Santa Clara County is accepting applications for up to $252,000 in grant funds available through the 2013 Historical Heritage Grant Program, according to County staff. 

After serving more than 50 years in the priesthood, Father Dan Derry – a beloved community figure whose work in the Catholic Church influenced generations of Gilroy and Morgan Hill residents – is leaving behind a “faithful and faith-filled” legacy in South County.

Roughly 200 concerned residents attended Wednesday night's Community Safety Meeting at Eliot Elementary School in Gilroy.

The Gilroy Unified School District is investigating an anonymous complaint that the manager of the cafeteria at Christopher High School makes vulgar, sexual advances on his female employees.