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In a meeting of firsts and lasts, Gilroy Unified School District ushered in new trustees and honored departing members last week. First-term Board of Education trustees Enrique Diaz, Anisha Munshi and Tuyen Fiack, as well as incumbent Linda Piceno, all unopposed victors in the November...

In the 2024-25 school year, one of the best teams at Christopher High School was the Cougars girls tennis team. The team fashioned an undefeated league season a year ago and moved up a division. And went undefeated again.  This past fall, in the Blossom...

Ella Miura captained Christopher High’s field hockey team the last two years, as the Cougars went 29-9-5 with a 2023-24 league title and made strong showings in the Central Coast Section playoffs both seasons.  In her four years on the varsity squad, CHS was 63-18-7...

Nine health officers from the greater Bay Area on Sunday released a statement supporting recent federal guidance to lift the pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine for adults.  The health officers, from the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, Santa...

The Gilroy After Hours Rotary welcomed L. Mattock Scariot of the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival on Nov. 23, who spoke about the film “Our Vietnam Veterans,” where veterans from Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Hollister and San Juan Bautista are featured. Veterans in the film...

After the NHL’s Christmas break, the Calgary Flames resume play with a game at San Jose on Dec. 28 at 7pm—bringing goalie Dustin Wolf back near his childhood home on a road trip.  The Flames follow the next night with a 5pm contest in Las...

Kelly Ramirez announced Aug. 7 that she will run for Gilroy City Council in the November 2024 election. Ramirez, a resident of Gilroy since her freshman year in high school, is a retired teacher, former executive director of the Mount Madonna YMCA and former chief...

A 21-year-old Salinas man died late Saturday night in a solo-car crash on Highway 101 south of Gilroy, the California Highway Patrol said Wednesday.  At about 11:30pm July 8, the man was headed north on Highway 101 just north of Highway 25 in a 2004...

Gilroy officials agree with a county grand jury report that says the city’s police department should expand its crisis intervention training programs in order to improve their responses to the growing volume of incidents involving mentally ill residents. “The police department is planning to review...

Community altars mark Dia de los Muertos Dia de los Muertos altars are now on display at the Gilroy Center for the Arts through Nov. 3. This year’s exhibit, titled “Honoring our Ancestors through Community,” is a community collective display. The goal of the display, according...