Community

Sometimes the offer on the table is a tempting decision: Give up your pet, and you’ll have a place to live.

Students and community members have hiked the pastoral hills behind Gavilan College for more than 25 years - until recently, when private property owners put the kibosh on public trail access. 

Nobody knows why Allysa Marie Chavez-Perez was walking alone in the middle of the night along a busy highway east of Gilroy. Friends and teachers who knew the 17-year-old say she was on the verge of turning her life around and graduating from high school in June.

The Gavilan College Board of Trustees Tuesday will consider appointing a short-term replacement for President Steve Kinsella, who will be taking about a one-month medical leave starting at the end of this month, according to Gavilan staff.

The Gilroy Exchange Club presented the Gilroy Police and Fire departments with a multitude of Teddy bears at the club’s luncheon March 6. The Exchange Club adopted the Teddy bear program, which helps officers and firefighters handle extreme situations involving children, and purchased a number of bears to donate. Police and firefighters will give the bears to children to comfort them during times of trauma. A police car and fire engine were displayed during the lunch and presentation of bears by Exchange Club members.

As authentic as the Italian cuisine served at his one-time iconic Gilroy restaurant, Giuseppe “Joe” Bertolone passed away Tuesday in Alabaster, Ala., where he helped start up another family-run eatery by the same name: Joe’s Italian Restaurant.

Attention, locavores: Are you a community member interested in joining the 2013 Farmers' Market Planning Committee?

Despite a heavy push for recruitment, there are still two open seats on the City of Gilroy's Public Art Committee that need to be filled, according to City Clerk Shawna Freels.

As up to 20,000 people from around the Bay Area are expected to gather today at the HP Pavilion in San Jose to mourn the loss of two Santa Cruz police officers killed in the line of duty, officers from the Gilroy Police Department demonstrated their respect and support this morning by picking up a very important item at the Mineta San Jose National Airport and transporting it to the memorial service.

There are more than 1,000 guns off the streets thanks to the Santa Clara County Anonymous Gun Buy Back Program, which was held at the county fairgrounds on March 2.