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Gilroy Unified School District bus driver Rebecca Scheel rallies

After finishing the season with an 8-3 record, the Central Coast Barnstormers will host a playoff game at 3 p.m. Saturday at Anzar High in San Juan Bautista.

Local pair has established a reputation at Sunshine Bicycles

Andrel Gaines, a freshman basketball player at Gavilan College whose fight for life following a Nov. 6 car accident spurred thousands of prayers and ardent messages of support, died this morning at a San Francisco hospital, the Dispatch has learned.

U.S. Army Sgt. William Sanchez Jr., 28; a 2001 alumnus of Gilroy High School who grew up in the Garlic Capital, returned home Feb. 19 for a week of rest and relaxation after a nine month tour of duty in Afghanistan.