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Hundreds of registered nurses gathered Dec. 16 outside four Santa Clara County hospitals to protest what they describe as dangerous staffing cuts that threaten patient safety across the countywide hospital system. The rally, organized by the Registered Nurses Professional Association, brought together nurses from multiple...

Santa Clara County’s Department of Tax and Collections Department has mailed out the 2018-19 property tax bills to all property owners and  tax payments are due Nov. 1, according to an Oct. 16 press release. The California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 2610.5 does not...

At last, the Gilroy Garlic Festival will have air conditioning. No more baking in the mid-summer heat at Christmas Hill Park, where the temperature on the ground is further elevated by the intense flames of the pyro chefs. No more jostling for position underneath the...

Downtown cleanup events on tap More cleanup events are scheduled in downtown Gilroy on April 1 and 8. Bring your brooms, dustpans, garden gloves and any other items that might be useful. Volunteers are asked to check-in at Greenhouse Coworking, 7500 Monterey St., between 7am and noon. For...

The Meals for Heroes program, which serves employees at St. Louise Regional Hospital and the De Paul Health Center by delivering up to 60 meals at a time from a local food establishment, is growing.  The Gilroy Foundation is working with the Gilroy Downtown Business...

It was a Valentine’s Day from hell. According to a complaint filed Feb. 9 in federal court, Tom Mosgrove spent Valentine’s Day in 2022 in Santa Clara County jail after his then-wife called the police and reported that he pushed her into a closet and...

Gilroy will buy its own armored vehicle for the police department after its decade-long access to a shared vehicle was restricted due to a recent state law. The Gilroy City Council on Monday unanimously approved a $360,497 purchase of a Lenco BearCat, an armored vehicle...

Downtown cleanup is March 25 A cleanup event in downtown Gilroy is scheduled for March 25 beginning at 9am. The public is invited to meet on the grass lot next to the Gilroy Center for the Arts at 7341 Monterey St. All volunteers will be required to...

Gilroy Police are investigating a razor blade that was found in a piece of a child’s Halloween candy, authorities said this week.  The night of Nov. 5, a teenage girl bit into a Milky Way candy bar and discovered a razor blade that had been...

The Gilroy Unified School District plans to bring back school resource officers to two high schools, part of a program to improve school safety after officials noted an uptick in fights on campus. Those against adding police officers on campus, meanwhile, say the money would...