Jaterius Lee among CHS, GHS players who earned distinction of playing in Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Game
Jaterius Lee was in the stands in February 2022 watching his former Christopher High football teammates in the Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Game.
At that moment, Lee made it a goal to get selected for the annual contest in his senior year. The 6-foot-3, 175-pound Lee...
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Christopher High School salutatorian Gabriel Campuzano's speech from the 2019 commencement
Kubra Sait once stated, “Asking questions is the first way to begin change.”
Questions are asked on a daily basis—something that’s become essential to our lives.
Questions are also a means to opening up a conversation...
PHOTOS: Commemorating Memorial Day in Gilroy
American Legion Post #217 hosted its annual Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony on May 31 at the Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Gilroy. The event, which drew dozens of people, honors fallen soldiers throughout history. The Veterans Memorial Building is displaying the names of local...
Rotarians organize supply drive as school year begins
Shortly after lunch during their weekly meeting on Aug. 16, members of the Rotary Club of Gilroy got in a line, grabbed a backpack and stuffed it with notebooks, erasers, pencils and more school necessities that were laid out across a long row of...
Did you feel it? Another quake hits near San Juan Bautista
A mild earthquake may have awakened some light sleepers in a rural area between Aromas and San Juan Bautista early Monday morning.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the 3.3-magnitude temblor at 2:58 am Jan. 13, less than two miles southeast of Aromas and about 3...
Nomination period opens for November election
The nomination period for the Nov. 3 election in Santa Clara County opened July 13.
The period can be extended to Aug. 12 for contests in which an eligible incumbent officeholder does not file.
Local offices up for election in November are the Gilroy City Council...
Gilroy’s CHEER cleaning up illegal dump in Hollister
The San Benito River meanders under Highway 156 along the western boundary of Hollister, past the city’s waste treatment facility, through farmland and along expanding neighborhoods on its way to connect with the Pajaro River near US 101.
Upstream and downstream from Hollister, blackbirds, meadowlarks,...
Return of outdoor sports provides logistical hurdles
When Santa Clara County public health officials gave the green light for the resumption of high school outdoor sports last week, it marked a joyous occasion for thousands of student-athletes. It also meant administrators are working overtime to deal with the bevy of logistical...
CHP on ‘maximum enforcement’ Nov. 25
Traffic police will be on heavy patrol up and down the coast the day before Thanksgiving, which is traditionally one of the busiest travel days of the year.
UC Santa Cruz secures 2,400-acre ranch in San Benito County
UC Santa Cruz recently acquired and established the Strathearn Ranch Natural Reserve, a 2,400-acre oak-studded grassland property in San Benito County that will be used for field research and outdoor education for the university’s students, staff and researchers.
The UC Board of Regents approved the...






















