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Drummer Roger Taylor of the 70s British rock band known as “Queen” has a Gilroyan protégé.

South Santa Clara County’s 50-plus-year honeymoon with the 408 is over, and telephone users are encouraged to get their dialing fingers warmed up to welcome a new area code to town.

They are the women pushing shopping carts full of blankets down Monterey Street. They are the men who sleep under pine trees in Christmas Hill Park. They are the families who give their kids sponge baths in their cars before they head to school.

There are three stages to developing your golf game and shot-making abilities. The three stages are when you wish you could hit a shot or shoot a certain score, believing you can hit that shot or score and knowing you can hit that shot or score.

Produce vendors are pulling out of the Gilroy farmers’ market due to low shopper turnout on Sundays, a trend Market Manager Kersty Daniels fears will continue as patronage remains inconsistent.

A series of workshops aimed at bolstering agritourism, enhancing the viability of wineries and clarifying existing laws that regulate the wine industry – a heated process that's left several local vintners feeling like they’ve “been had” under the “pretense of (the county) helping us” – is wrapping up after 12 months and more than a dozen meetings.

Randy Guerrero’s professional boxing debut on the undercard of the Andre Ward-Chad Dawson WBC/WBA Super Middleweight title clash is right around the corner. And the younger brother of Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero now knows who he will square off with Sept. 8 at Oracle Arena in Oakland.