PHOTOS: School Days at the Gilroy Senior Center
The City of Gilroy Senior Center hosted a “School Days” event on Sept. 8, giving seniors a chance to share stories of their time in school. The event was complete with life-sized pencils, original school-age class photos, globe, chalkboard and cold breakfast cereal favorites...
BREAKING: San Martin rape suspect arrested in San Jose
San Jose police made the arrest at around 10am Feb. 8 after closing in on Bobian around U.S. 101 and Hellyer Road.
Rodeo celebrates San Benito County legacy
The 90th San Benito County Saddle Horse Show & Rodeo treated crowds to traditional competition events, performances, exhibitions, demonstrations and vendors at the fairgrounds in Tres Pinos June 28-30.
Participants from youth to seniors competed in barrel racing, bronc riding, bull riding, calf roping, mutton...
Sports Roundup: Christopher boys basketball wins holiday tournament, now 11-1
Christopher HS Boys Basketball (11-1 overall, 1-0 BVAL Mt. Hamilton)
Recent results: Sonoma County Classic Tournament: won 60-37 vs. Santa Rosa; won 68-60 (OT) at Piner; won 45-31 vs. Cardinal Newman
Recent results: won 51-22 vs. Piedmont Hills; won 58-51 vs. Leigh
Upcoming games: 7pm Jan. 8...
Downtown music series wraps up
The Downtown Live summer concert series wrapped up on Aug. 22, after nine weeks of new bands in a different location with an unexpected vigil in between.
The series, organized by the Gilroy Downtown Business Association, ran every Thursday since June 20, with the exception...
Live in Gilroy
Downtown Gilroy’s weekly concert series, known as Downtown Live, resumes this week with a July 4 holiday performance by California Standard.
With the stage centered at Monterey Road and Fifth Street, Downtown Live brings a block party vibe to downtown Gilroy. Streets are closed to...
Water shortages and fires loom after a dry winter
The weather forecast Monday called for sunshine across California, with barely a cloud on the horizon for the next week or so.
Pour yourself a nice, cool glass of water—and then think about how you’re going to start conserving it.
The lack of rain and snow...
Market factors lead to increase in renters in South County
With home ownership increasingly surpassing the reach of many Californians and residential real estate prices going up across the board, more people in South County are renting their homes in recent years.
As of earlier this year, the average two-bedroom home rental in Morgan Hill...
Mushroom boom leads ag
Mushrooms became Santa Clara County’s top crop in 2018, capping off a successful year for the fleshy fungi whose local value exceeded $82 million.
On the flip side, a rough year for cherries caused the county’s overall crop value to drop by 6.7 percent to...
Gilroy Police blotter, April 17-24, 2023
April 17
• Businesses were reportedly burglarized on the 7300 block of Monterey Street and 8600 block of San Ysidro Avenue.
• A vehicle was reportedly burglarized on the first block of E. Luchessa Avenue.
April 18
• A vehicle was reported stolen on the 600 block of...





















