Photo: PEO celebrates centennial
Gilroy’s chapter of the Philanthropic Education Organization, known as PEO, celebrated its 100th anniversary with an event at Old City Hall on Sept. 12. The organization supports female high school seniors in Gilroy with scholarships to help them attend college. It works with counselors...
Guest View: 2026 will be another busy year in Gilroy
With 2025 in the rear-view mirror and the 2025-26 legislative work plan already established, the Gilroy City Council will dive right into items that need to be completed in 2026. Once the new city council is seated after the Nov. 3, 2026 election, a...
Gilroy City Hall reopens following lengthy pandemic closure
Gilroy City Hall looks a little different since it was last open to the public in early 2020.
The multiple entrances have now been reduced to a single entryway, with directional arrows on the sidewalk for those entering or exiting the building. Once inside, they...
Four charged in probe of sheriff’s office
Two local attorneys, an elite gun specialist and a senior member of Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith’s command staff will face charges in connection with an investigation into the issuance of concealed weapons permits.
Coroner identifies two who died in head-on crash on Highway 25
Two people—one a Hollister resident and one from Gilroy—died in a collision on Highway 25 near the border between Santa Clara and San Benito counties, according to authorities.
The Santa Clara County Coroner and Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims of the fatal accident as...
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...
Analysis: Sheriffs, Guns & Money
As a young journalist, I was invited to a meeting with Sheriff Bob Winter at an insurance office. At one point, one of the attendees asked the folksy Gilroyan if there was anything he could do to help. I remember Winter saying he needed...
San Martin animal shelter moves from converted house into expansive campus
Since 1978, the Santa Clara County Animal Services Center operated out of a donated, 1930s-era converted home in San Martin that was woefully undersized for the 4,000 animals that passed through it annually.
From the outside, no passersby would look at the hodgepodge of modular...
DA: Captain falsified Wasserman’s CCW paperwork
By Jennifer Wadsworth and Michael Moore
One of 10 felony counts in a grand jury indictment announced Aug. 7 claims that Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Capt. James Jensen falsified information on a firearms proficiency form for a concealed weapons permit for Supervisor Mike Wasserman.
Wasserman, who...
Local Scene: Gilroy Sports Park cleanup
Help clean up the Gilroy Sports Park
The next cleanup event organized by the City of Gilroy will take place Oct. 21 at the Gilroy Sports Park, 5923 Monterey Frontage Road, beginning at 9am.
City officials will provide trash bags and grabbers. Students can earn volunteer...






















