Local Scene: Little League donates $200K; State of the County set
Little League donates $200K to city
The Gilroy Little League BallPark Fund recently donated $200,000 to the City of Gilroy to use toward sports field improvements.
The donated funds are required to be used only for the purpose of building new facilities or improving existing facilities...
Rotary Club of Gilroy donates nearly 900 coats
The Rotary Club of Gilroy’s coat drive in conjunction with One Warm Coat collected nearly 900 coats during the month of January.
The goal was to collect 500 coats and jackets to provide to local partners who, in turn, would provide them to those in...
South African coronavirus strain detected in two Bay Area counties
Public health officials say they’ve detected the first known cases of a South African Covid-19 variant in Santa Clara and Alameda counties.
Chief health officers in each jurisdiction, doctors Sara Cody and Nicholas Moss, hosted a press conference Feb. 10 to field questions about the...
First exhibit at new downtown art center emerges
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,...
Small businesses face big fines for alleged Covid-19 violations
Some South County businesses have been fined thousands of dollars for alleged violations of the state and local Covid-19 public health guidelines since Black Friday weekend 2020, when enforcement officers stopped offering proprietors a grace period to correct the offenses before issuing penalties.
Fines levied...
Meals For Heroes program grows
Cecily Murray may live in Mountain View, but her heart remains firmly entrenched in South Valley. How else to explain her efforts to pay it forward with the Meals for Heroes program? On Jan. 3, Murray took it upon herself to deliver dozens of...
Gilroy High to be considered for mass vaccination site
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...
Covid-19 vaccination clinic set for Feb. 10 at Gilroy Senior Center
Santa Clara County Public Health will offer Covid-19 vaccinations at the Gilroy Senior Center, 7371 Hanna St., on Feb. 10 from 9am-3pm.
County residents who are 65 years or older are eligible to receive the vaccine. Per a recent announcement by the county, everyone eligible...
Turner named Chamber Executive of the Year
Mark Turner, the president/chief executive officer of the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce, was named the Chamber of Commerce “Executive of the Year” by the Western Association of Chamber Executives (W.A.C.E.) on Feb. 4.
Turner received the award during the association’s annual management conference, which was...
Personal care industry reopens after a year of stops and starts
Shag Salon, like every other salon across the state, has had a rollercoaster of a year.
The salon was one of the businesses deemed “non-essential” during the initial Covid-19 shelter-in-place order, and shut down on March 17. It was allowed to reopen in July, but...
