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January 28, 2026

South County police, DA to host gun buyback Dec. 14

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office will partner with the Gilroy and Morgan Hill police departments to sponsor a $50,000 gun buyback in the South Bay Dec. 14, 2019.

Religion: Banish the Darkness, Spread the Light

As we approach the darkest time of the year, Jews prepare to celebrate Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. The ancient story took place in the 2nd century BCE during the reign of Syrian-Greek King Antiochus IV. He imposed harsh decrees upon the Jews forbidding...

A little pasta, a lotta fun at Little Uvas

Praise be to the gods of pizza and pasta, and wine. Fridays and Saturdays have already become legend at Little Uvas and DeRose Vineyards on Fitzgerald Avenue in San Martin, where the hospitality flows like wine, and the woodfired pizza oven turns out pies...

Highway 101 project will modify traffic pattern at Rocks/Cannon roads

Caltrans will soon begin work to modify the intersection of U.S. 101 at Rocks Road and Cannon Road in San Benito County.  The project will include the closure of the median opening on Highway 101, and the elimination of all through passage and left turn...

Citing need for local control, county declines to take part in state vaccine plan

Santa Clara County officials said the county will not join the state's new centralized vaccine distribution plan that will be run by Oakland-based health insurance giant Blue Shield.  During the county board of supervisors meeting, County Executive Jeff Smith said the state's new program, known...

Spoking My Mind: Blarney, breakthroughs, bikes and bye-byes! 

Welcome to March. The 17th falls on a Sunday this year, so make plans today for a St. Patrick’s Day bicycle ride with your kids and/or grandkids! Oh, and be sure to wear green! My weight-loss progress as of the middle of February: 8.8 pounds...

Gilroy golfer grabs gold in tournament

josh torres
At the end of the first day of the Northern California Golf Association Net Amateur Championship, Josh Torres was locked in a three-way tie for first. The Gilroy native, competing for the Gilroy Golf Course, needed a big round during the second and final day...

Young Gilroy entrepreneur’s collectible business taking off

AJ Jimenez Collectables N Stuff Gilroy Premium Outlets Funko Pop
AJ Jimenez, at only 21 years old, has already set a list of goals he wants to accomplish in his life. The Gilroy native has checked one of the boxes, having opened his own business, Collectables N’ Stuff, in the Gilroy Premium Outlets more than...

Merry Cherry Forever!

The Tognetti sisters, Andrea and Nancy, always loved being on the family ranch with their parents and brothers, playing in the fields and on the tractors. Throughout childhood and into their high school years, they even helped out with the family’s Merry Cherry fruit...

Virus casualty was a beloved cowboy

Ken Machado, a Morgan Hill native who lived in Paicines for about the last 20 years, was the first San Benito County resident to die with the COVID-19 illness, according to his family and friends.

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