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It is graduation season, and hundreds of local high school students walked in commencement ceremonies over the last week—prepared with their new diplomas to take the next step into the world.  Gilroy High School held its Class of 2025 graduation ceremony June 12 at the...

Silicon Valley's unemployment rate increased by 3.2% in January due in part to a drop in seasonal employment and a significant spike in Covid-19 cases that occurred before the holidays. Gilroy’s unemployment rate grew to 5.2% in January, according to statistics released by the California...

Parents of some of the students who attend Luigi Aprea Elementary School took their concerns and frustrations to the Gilroy Unified School District board after a potentially dangerous criminal suspect was allowed to enter the campus late last month.  About 40 parents, grandparents, students and...

Hidden hands shape our local election I am outraged by the recent revelations surrounding the group responsible for sponsoring negative campaign mailers against Mayor Blankley. These attacks are funded by “Building Tomorrow, sponsored by California Friends and Family,” a group that was previously known as...

Alex Torres had the tail end of his senior year at Gilroy High School taken away from him as the coronavirus pandemic forced the school to shut down. All his plans for prom, graduation and the senior trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain were gone...

Is it appropriate for a Gilroy City Councilmember to be on NextDoor’s Review Team, deciding which posts should be removed? My NextDoor survey found 94% of 155 respondents opposed the idea. My post was then removed by the Review Team. NextDoor allows local political discussions,...

Residents of Santa Clara County and other counties in California’s “purple” Covid-19 risk tier are subject to a “limited stay at home order” starting Saturday, Nov. 21, Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted Thursday.

Make no mistake: Darren Yafai is excited to be the new Christopher High football coach—it just wasn’t on his radar.  “By no means at all (was I thinking of doing this),” said Yafai, who spent the last five years as an assistant coach helping the...

A plan to annex 55 acres of land into Gilroy’s city limits, which could eventually house 307 residential units, may be considered in early 2023 after more than 20 years in the works. Known as the Wren Investors and Hewell Urban Service Area Amendment, 50...

Leadership Gilroy’s Class of 2022 will host “A Salute to our Veterans” on Oct. 1 from 10am to 1pm at the Veterans Memorial Building, 74 West Sixth St. The event will begin with the unveiling of the flagpole, which was refurbished thanks to fundraising by...