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Over the past several months, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Fentanyl Crisis Response Team (FCRT) ran an in-depth investigation into the narcotics trafficking activities of Juan Basurto Jimenez, a 54-year-old resident of Santa Clara County. The investigation uncovered extensive operations spanning Santa Cruz...

UPDATE 5PM: Cal Fire personnel on scene downgraded the size of the fire to two acres, and were canceling incoming engines as crews had surrounded 75% of the acreage with retardant. Mop-up is underway, according to Cal Fire radio dispatch. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Cal Fire is reporting a vegetation...

By Wallace Baine Last Friday, on a crisp and sunny winter morning, about two dozen volunteers gathered at an address on Rosanna Street in Gilroy. Their mission was to paint a house.  The vibe was upbeat, with laughter and easy conversations, refreshments and music.  But one person...

High school students are encouraged to attend Gilroy Police Department’s Youth Police Academy in August. During the week-long academy, participants will meet officers from each of the department’s specialty units: SWAT, Motors, K9, Mounted Unit and the Drone team. Students will be given a tour...

Two state assemblymembers on Tuesday announced a new $3 billion bond measure that aims to spur Covid-19 economic recovery while combating climate change and food insecurity.  Assemblymembers Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, and Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, announced Assembly Bill 125—the Equitable Economic Recovery, Healthy Food Access,...

When Carol Marques ran for Gilroy City Council in 2018, she promised that she would work to get any resident’s concerns addressed. Two years later and nearing the end of her first term, Marques said she has kept her promises. Those include checking on the...

How powerful words are! Rabbi Seymour J Cohen wrote: “Words can inspire, destroy, console us, entice us. Throughout history words promoted hatred, murder, even wars! How many politicians permanently had their careers ended by false rumors and innuendos!” Each of us have experienced the power...

For the past 20 years, Whitney Pintello has worked in the figurative art realm and perfected her craft in glasswork. Under the Covid-19 lockdown, the Gilroy artist has branched out to the abstract. Those works, many of which have never seen the light of day,...

To call Keith Larson a superfan of “A Christmas Story” might be an understatement. The San Jose native still remembers that clear winter day as a 9-year-old in 1983, when the power tripped off in his neighborhood without a known reason. On a whim, the family...

Over three weeks ago, Gandolfi Investments—which has proposed a 501-unit project at 315 Las Animas Ave—sued the City of Gilroy and City Council for violating California law. According to California’s Department of Housing and Community Development, Gilroy failed to meet its deadline to adopt a...