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The Central Coast Barnstormers semi-pro football team won its fifth straight game with a 51-41 victory over the visiting California Rhinos on Saturday at Gilroy High.

Uesugi Farms’ Peter Aiello ushered in a new era of self-sustainability Friday for his family's agricultural business, located at 1020 Highway 25 in Gilroy, near the border of San Benito County.

On Saturday, May 11, residents can team up with their letter carriers to help “Stamp Out Hunger,” an annual event now in its 21st year that has become the largest single-day food drive in the Bay Area. 

After a four-year economic slump that hit the housing industry hard, the bustling sounds of construction are filling the air again as work gets underway on the Oak Creek residential development on Gilroy’s south side.

Staff and roughly 500 students of El Roble Elementary School honored Gilroy Police Department K-9 Pharaoh and his handler, Corporal Paco Rodriguez at a special all-school assembly Wednesday.

The Gilroy Garlic Festival Association is set to unveil plans for an “unprecedented” intercollegiate competition next Tuesday at Mama Mia's Ristorante Italiano, located at 275 E. Dunne Ave. in Morgan Hill.

It started a couple of weeks ago with an innocent friend request on Instagram — a popular social media site for sharing photos — when a user under the name of “Sobrato Bops” sent an electronic invitation to Kim Valles, a junior at Ann Sobrato High School in Morgan Hill.

The “Sharks” to whom entrepreneurs will pitch their business visions for downtown Gilroy during the “Shark Tank Gilroy” event in June have finally been announced.

Plans to consolidate Santa Barbara Bank & Trust and Union Bank locations in Gilroy have been halted, according to a letter sent out to bank customers earlier this month.