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GILROY—Jodi Taffel didn’t plan on winning the Gilroy Garlic Festival’s Great Garlic Cook-Off this year, but she sure did hope to. The Altadena woman had been stalking the competition for the past five years, honing her recipe throughout many a breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Audiences at Morgan Hill’s CineLux Cinemas last weekend were full of glee for the world premiere of the movie “Gleeful,” a musical comedy filmed entirely in the South Valley and featuring a cast of more than a hundred young actors from the region.

It started on a whim: A pirate's plank, just a nifty addition to

Pablo Sandoval, 2, sprays his brother, Javier Powell, 7, with a

Gilroy cruises to 50-27 semifinal victory; Meets Notre Dame of

About 3,000 people poured into the 13th annual unSCruz gathering May 1-4 at the San Benito County Fairgrounds. The four-day mix of free-style art projects, bizarre vehicles, outlandish costumes, food and drink, music, dance and more went its course this year with a theme...