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Across the country, a quiet revolution is changing how small towns and cities operate. It’s not led by billion-dollar investments or top-down mandates, but by neighbors with ideas—and local governments willing to say YES. This movement is called “Idea Friendly,” a term coined by the...

Grammy Award-winning Jamaican reggae group Black Uhuru, formed in the 1970s, performed at the District Theater in Gilroy on Feb. 22. Wicked Paradise and DJ Sugar Bear also performed.

Gilroy High School is poised to become South County’s first mass Covid-19 vaccination site. On Feb. 11, the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education will consider allowing Santa Clara County Public Health to operate the site through the end of July. According to the tentative...

At 14 years old and nearly 6 feet tall, Reyna Padron is taller than most of her peers. She’s had to deal with the occasional name-calling from others, especially from boys jealous of her height. But she doesn’t let that drag her down, and that...

Two people were arrested in separate hit-and-run crashes within 24 hours of each other that left two men dead on the same stretch of road in Gilroy. The first crash was reported Sept. 12 at about 8:54pm on Wren Avenue at El Cerrito Way, where...

For the third time this year, the Santa Clara County Local Agency Formation Commission postponed its decision on allowing Gilroy to annex 55 acres into its limits June 7, citing the need for more time to digest information submitted by city officials a week...

The Gilroy Unified School District last week announced that electing board members in the November 2020 elections will be much different this year. The Gilroy Unified Board of Trustees will be by trustee area instead of the current at-large citywide elections, which allows voters the...

With live, indoor entertainment one of the first activities to be prohibited during the Covid-19 era, and likely one of the last that will be allowed to resume, things have been difficult for theater groups across the country. South Valley Civic Theatre is faced with...

With home ownership increasingly surpassing the reach of many Californians and residential real estate prices going up across the board, more people in South County are renting their homes in recent years.  As of earlier this year, the average two-bedroom home rental in Morgan Hill...

Declining enrollments and increased wages and benefits could force the Gilroy Unified School District to close an elementary school by the 2020-21 school year, according to a recent staff report. “It’s very scary, frankly,” said Gilroy School Board President Linda Piceno of the possibility of...