Local Scene: Gavilan jazz concert; Mount Madonna School honored
Gavilan hosting jazz concert
Gavilan College is hosting its annual “Jazz @ Gavilan” concert at the Gilroy campus theater on Nov. 2 at 7pm.
This year the featured musicians are the Sobrato High School Jazz Band and the Dahveed Behroozi Quartet featuring Trumpeter Mike Olmos.
Tickets are...
Medical student rides the West Coast for breast cancer awareness
One in eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. Statistics also show that 98 percent of cases are curable, if they are detected early.
But a national study by the Breast Cancer Surveillance Coalition...
Westside city fire station project advances
Gilroy’s long-awaited fourth fire station took one step closer to reality Dec. 2, when the Gilroy City Council approved revised plans for the facility on the southwestern portion of the city.
However, while early estimates put the station online in 2022, its construction is tied...
New mayor, council members sworn in to lead Gilroy
Marie Blankley was sworn in as Gilroy’s mayor Dec. 7, taking over the position that will lead the city council through a pandemic and economic recovery in the years ahead.
Two new faces, Rebeca Armendariz and Zach Hilton, joined the council as well, while Fred...
Local Scene: Camino Arroyo hotel project; historic walking tour
Environmental report released for Camino Arroyo proposal
A draft environmental report for a development that could add two hotels and other buildings on Camino Arroyo is now available for public review.
The 10-acre project, known as Gilroy Square, is proposed on 6970 Camino Arroyo between Highway...
Gilroy’s Richmond Appleton chronicles his life story from war-torn Liberia
Adversity started early for Liberian-born Richmond Appleton. At age 5, he was stricken with polio. At around the same time, the beginning of a civil war started to engulf the West African coastside country, leading to the deaths of 250,000 people over a 14-year...
Christopher girls soccer team makes history, wins first-ever CCS title
In the last four years, the Christopher High girls soccer team has reached the Central Coast Section playoff quarterfinals, semifinals and two championship matches. Their quest for CCS glory previously ended in disappointment, but not this season. On Friday, the top-seed Cougars ran away...
Veterans mural unveiled in downtown Gilroy
Throughout its existence, the downtown Gilroy Veterans Hall has been a relatively nondescript white building on the corner of West Sixth and Eigleberry streets that is often overlooked.
That has changed.
On July 27, local veterans unveiled a massive mural on the Eigleberry Street side of...
Fire blazes through San Martin
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A fire that ripped through southeast San Martin burned 20 acres of vegetation and multiple homes, displacing 21 residents of the rural unincorporated community.
The blaze started about 4:15pm July 25 as a vegetation fire in the area of the 12100 block of...
Poppy Jasper International Film Festival offers biggest slate of programming to date
This weekend, a month before the world’s biggest film festival kicks off in the south of France, the bucolic hills south of San Jose will become magnets for movie lovers. Over the course of eight days, starting on April 10, a total of 267...