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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.”   

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.

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.

The City of Morgan Hill will continue to try to help a longtime affordable home developer whose most recent local project is underwater and suffering from the shockwaves of last decade’s housing crash.

The day of Dec. 22, 2012 will go down in the millennia-long history of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Ohlone/Costanoan Indians as a day of healing.