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The South County Christmas tree trade is much more than sellers making a living or buyers finding a canvas for colorful holiday decorations.

Black Friday looked more like a rich shade of money green at the Gilroy Premium Outlets’ “Midnight Madness” event Thursday evening.

A majestic 260-acre private property just west of Gilroy is on track to expand the forested sanctuary of Mt. Madonna County Park, a natural gem and popular recreation area located on Pole Line Road off Hecker Pass.

Gilroy’s own Mary Cortani of the local nonprofit Operation Freedoms Paws spent Monday with a CNN photographer and a surprise celebrity OFP supporter.

Less than six months after a hit-and-run accident left Joshua Valdez, 23, in the hospital for several weeks with numerous injuries including a badly banged-up knee, the Morgan Hill resident is thankful he will get to spend Thanksgiving on his feet.

Fresh off a successful temporary reopening of the Granada Theater for the first time in nearly a decade, and just in time to ring in the winter holidays, the Morgan Hill Downtown Association is working on bringing a weekend screening of two Christmas classics to the theater.

A Gilroy woman was honored at the Silicon Valley National Philanthropy Day on Nov. 16 for her work in raising $70,000 for the Gilroy Foundation last year.

Council approved a development project on a 5-0 vote for 68 single family homes on a 70 acre site on the westside of Rancho Hills Drive in the northwest quad during their regular meeting Monday night.

Thanksgiving is often the day of the year when firefighters respond to the most kitchen fires.