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With the sun sparkling off the waters of Uvas Reservoir and an endless blue sky as the backdrop, Scott and Susan Francks alternated sentences. The couple’s voices, along with the occasional squirrel scurrying past, broke a serene, peaceful silence of a perfect morning last Friday. Their words sent the mind swirling and offered imagery complimentary to the setting.

Painter Thomas Kinkade died at his Los Gatos home Friday. He was 54.

Out goes the books and in comes a new business, hopefully: The soon-to-be empty 10,000-square-foot interim library building on Monterey Road is available for lease.

The word “slut” strikes miscellaneous cords.

The South Valley Middle School boys volleyball team made history March 29 when it became the school’s first bump-set-spike squad to play in the Santa Clara County East Side Junior High Coaches Association championship game.

Gilroy families are invited to meet the Easter Bunny and wander through the grass in search of Easter eggs at Christmas Hill Park on Saturday for the annual Easter egg hunt.

Though it had its way with opponents en route to a Silicon Valley championship three weeks ago, The Gilroy-Morgan Hill National Junior Basketball third-and-fourth-grade all-star team surprised itself a bit at the national tournament held in Huntington Beach over the weekend.