Community

Like many seniors in Gilroy, Nina York has been frequenting the Senior Center at 7371 Hanna St. on daily basis for decades. York, who has a caregiver transport her to the center from her home, comes to visit with friends and enjoy their company.

Gilroy's Saint Louise Regional Hospital presented their 2012 Vincentian Spirit Award to Dr. George Green, a specialist in pulmonary/internal medicine, at the SLRH General Medical Staff Meeting Dec. 13.

Following a year of preparation, the Boy Scout Councils of the Monterey Bay Area and Santa Clara County decided to merge the two groups.

Volunteers pitched in, picked up trimming shears, put on gloves and got to work snipping persimmons from trees on a recent Saturday morning in a rural orchard in unincorporated South County. The cold weather and muddy conditions didn't stop them from digging and gathering fruit that would go to a good cause.

Gilroy mother Elena Desatoff kneeled over her 12-year-old son David Jr.'s makeshift mattress on his bedroom floor on a recent weekday morning, massaging his calves with essential oils while softly cooing “good morning.”   

National sports stories over the past year too often flashed across TV screens like a horror movie on an endless loop.

Residents of California can ring in the New Year with five free crapemyrtle trees by joining the Arbor Day Foundation any time during the month of January.

The future is looking bright for 87,000 acres of majestic South County backcountry stretching east of Highway 101 between Gilroy and Morgan Hill that was recently in danger of being closed to the public.

United Food and Commercial Workers Union members recently voted in favor of a new two-year labor contract with the Sacramento-based grocery store chain Raley's, which operates two Nob Hill Foods grocery stores in Gilroy and Morgan Hill. The newly ratified contract comes more than a month after nearly 7,000 UFCW workers went on strike over wage issues and claims of unfair labor practices.