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The Gilroy Garlic Festival Association is seeking contestants for the 35th annual Miss Gilroy Garlic Festival Queen Pageant. Contestant applications are available at the Garlic Festival office, 7473 Monterey St., or at gilroygarlicfestival.com.

Teenage theater tech phenom Josh Greene-Gomez, 17, not only maintains a 4.0 GPA, he is also the tech director, set designer, lighting designer and set builder for the Christopher High School drama department's upcoming senior production of “Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

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After 37 years running downtown's Nimble Thimble quilt store, longtime Gilroy shop owner Dave Peoples is handing over the keys to a new proprietor.

United Way Silicon Valley is working with a coalition of financial institutions and nonprofit and government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, to connect eligible local families to free tax services through its Earn It! Keep It! Save It! program. Tax preparation services are provided by trained, IRS-certified volunteers at Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites located throughout Santa Clara County at selected libraries, nonprofit organizations, churches, community centers and credit unions.

When Daniel Palmerlee first opened his dental practice in Gilroy, business trickled in slowly. As an avid photographer, he’d sometimes bide his time at the office developing negatives in the X-ray dark room.

When it comes to food, music and a volunteerism, there is nothing like the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, which has grown from a local event into a perpetual media darling that garners national attention.

Wesley Painter, 29 of Gilroy, whose lifeless body was located in a west Morgan Hill home while police were investigating an unrelated incident, is not considered a victim of foul play, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jose Cardoza said.