Community

A neighborhood meeting regarding possible improvements to Sunrise Park will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Gilroy Library Community Room, located at the Gilroy Public Library at 350 W. Sixth St. in Gilroy.

Downtown's only coffee shop, Dragonfly on Fifth, has officially closed its doors.

The Pebble Beach Bunker Cocktail

The City of Gilroy will officially honor Mary Cortani, founder of the local nonprofit Operation Freedoms Paws, by presenting her with a framed resolution at their Jan. 7 regular meeting. This recognition is for her work through OFP, as well as for her laudable volunteer service for Second Harvest Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity, a charitable event called “Christmas in April,” and as a canine instructor for Monterey County search and rescue dogs.

In the leap year that was 2012, tragedy turned to hope, sadness questioned pride, outrage preserved inaction, fear gripped the earth and bewilderment seemed to multiply itself many times over in Gilroy and South Santa Clara County.

A new weekly community newspaper in Morgan Hill has suspended operations after publishing just two editions, due to financial difficulties and a “disgruntled” employee who made steady business difficult, according to the publisher.

The stage lights on FOX’s hit talent show “The X Factor” may have gone out, but not for Gilroy teen and former contestant Austin Corini.

After months of working its way through the House of Representatives and into the Senate, a bill to make Pinnacles National Monument into a national park was approved this week and awaits the signature of President Barack Obama to make it official.

The Gilroy Demonstration Garden, located on Eigleberry Street between Sixth and Seventh streets in downtown Gilroy, was recently offered a generous matching gift opportunity in the amount of $10,000.