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Facing twin challenges of fewer students and less money, the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education approved an annual budget for the 2019-20 school year that includes nearly $3 million in budget cuts from the previous year and dips into cash reserves. The total...

Unlike the majority of the competitors in the Central Coast Section Track and Field Trials on June 12 at Soquel High in Aptos, Christopher’s Gabriela Baxter and a couple of her fellow athletes in the girls high jump event had to wait for what...

For Amtrak's 50th birthday, instead of lighting 50 candles, we ought to give recognition to the taxpayers and have one candle for each dollar in taxpayers' subsidies that have been paid to it. Of course, then if we start that annual tribute, to be fair,...

Coaches Sonya Beck and Michael Nguyen are building the volleyball program at Gilroy High and progress and success are evident.  After a dry spell of down years, the Mustangs rolled through the Blossom Valley Athletic League, West Valley Division last season with an 11-1 record....

The Gilroy City Council on July 5 unanimously agreed to slightly update the text of a measure headed to the November ballot. The measure, which aims to modernize the city’s construction bidding process, will now include a line that prioritizes placing notices in the newspaper. The...

For years, I have been railing against the so-called jobs/housing imbalance, believing that the underlying construction of the logic that forms this seemingly simple premise is fundamentally flawed. While there are several flaws in the jobs/housing imbalance premise, this discussion will be limited to...

Nearly four months after forming a bipartisan select committee and two hearings later, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas announced legislation Feb. 15 to combat shoplifting and organized retail theft—just beating a legislative deadline to introduce new bills. The Hollister Democrat joined Democratic Assemblymembers Rick Zbur of...

Connie Rogers (left) and Joanne Fierro unveil one of two new interpretive signs May 7 for the historical whaling kettle and millstones on display in front of the Gilroy Museum at 195 Fifth St. The kettle pictured was brought to Gilroy from Monterey circa...

Small businesses in Santa Clara County can apply for grants of up to $2,500 if they have been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic after the county reopened its microbusiness grant program. While the county has awarded more than 500 grants through the program's first...

Louise Shields is on cloud nine. That’s because the Gilroy artist recently returned from a trip to New York earlier in May with some of her friends to attend a reception at the Agora Gallery, where a pair of her works were on display. “The reception...