Big rig smashes into oncoming Highway 101 traffic
All northbound lanes of Highway 101 in San Martin have reopened after a big rig traveling southbound crashed through the center divider and smashed into oncoming vehicles Wednesday morning.
According to California Highway Patrol dispatch logs, the big rig hauling a tractor trailer was traveling...
Santa Clara County: Covid-19 is third leading cause of death
With at least 632 fatalities attributed to Covid-19 so far in 2020, the virus is projected to be the third leading cause of death in Santa Clara County this year, according to public health officials.
Local Scene: Pop-up park; Gilroy walking tour
Blood donation opportunities in Gilroy
The American Red Cross continues to experience a national blood and platelet shortage and asks the public to book a time to give as soon as possible.
Donors of all blood types are urgently needed, especially type O blood donors and...
Religion: Giving you hope and a future
There are times in each of our lives when we wonder, “Have I missed what God has for me? Is it too late for me?” Looking back on opportunities missed (and let’s face it—we all have them) it is easy to find ourselves in...
Gilroy Police investigate body found in creek
Police are investigating a suspicious death after a body was found in the area of East Sixth Street and Camino Arroyo in Gilroy.
On Sept. 30 about 4:15 pm, authorities received a call that a body had been found in a creek behind businesses along...
Survivor of Nazi experiments speaks at Morgan Hill event
Sora Vigorito was 3 years old when she and her twin sister were pulled from their grandmother’s arms at the gates of Auschwitz and handed to the infamous Nazi physician Josef Mengele. More than 80 years later, she stood before a packed auditorium at...
Santa Clara County moves to restrict ICE activity on public property
Local officials across the Bay Area are developing strategies to protect immigrant communities as the Trump administration considers deploying federal immigration enforcement agents to the region, with some municipalities taking aggressive protective measures while others adopt more cautious approaches.
The administration recently canceled planned enforcement...
Guest View, Ella Cozmi: Turn to the parents
I am writing as a parent of two middle schoolers in the Gilroy Unified School District. Like many families in our town, we embraced distance learning (DL) wholeheartedly in the beginning of the pandemic when there was very little information about the Covid-19 virus...
BookBuyers’ epilogue: Downtown bookstore closing April 15
It will take a Herculean effort not unlike those found in the epics on BookBuyers’ shelves to clear the store’s 300,000 books in only a few weeks.
The downtown bookstore is facing a conundrum similar to the one it tackled a little more than five...
Gavilan College food pantry program grows under Covid-19
The front gate to Gavilan College has been chained up since the campus closed down nearly two months ago.
But the locks came off for a couple of hours on May 5 as the school’s food pantry program hosted its second Drive-Thru Food Distribution event...























