Local Scene: Agnitsch selected to represent Gilroy at international festival
Garlic City Car Show moves to new venue
The Gilroy Chamber of Commerce’s 25th Annual Garlic City Car Show & Business Expo is scheduled for 5:30-8pm May 29. This year’s event will take place at a new venue: Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park.
Spectators take a...
Gardening for a cause
The Gilroy Gardening Group held its annual plant sale April 19 at the Miller Red Barn in Christmas Hill Park. Now in its fourth year, the event featured thousands of organic plant starts for $5 each, including heirloom tomatoes, Asian vegetables, rare peppers and...
CHS boys tennis rises from nothing to win league this year
No team can match the rise of the Christopher High School boys tennis squad. Last year, there was no team—just one potential player but ideally a competitive squad would have 10.
This year, coach Megan Lyons has a full crew and they just went unbeaten...
Dozens of map drafts submitted for Gilroy district election options
The City of Gilroy held its third public hearing on district based elections on April 7, where the city council reviewed and discussed draft maps submitted by the public more than a week earlier.
Extensive public input is designed into the city’s transition process to...
Sports roundup: CHS baseball improves to 9-5; boys volleyball at 8-0 in league
Christopher HS baseball (9-5 overall, 3-1 BVAL Mt. Hamilton)
Recent results: Won 4-1 vs. Pioneer; lost 3-2 (13 innings) at Pioneer; won 18-2 at Gilroy
Upcoming games: 4pm April 16 vs. Branham; 4pm April 16 at Branham
NOTES: In the victory over Pioneer, Jacob Vasquez went 2-for-3...
Editorial: Community journalism plays a vital role
Welcome to the new format of the Gilroy Dispatch community newspaper. We have changed to a tab size to make it more reader friendly and have expanded our local news coverage. We will do more in the future.
The new print edition sports a fresh...
Event raises awareness of importance of Juristac
It’s springtime, and orange poppies, purple lupine and red paintbrush flowers color the hillsides at Juristac, a pristine hillside landscape in northern San Benito County and Southern Santa Clara County that is the site of a proposal for an open pit mining project.
In honor...
Letter: Thank you for journalism that supports community, nation
My name is Lee Kalpin, and I was born in Gilroy in 1946. My parents subscribed to the Dispatch as far back as I can remember, and I have been a constant subscriber for at least 55 years.
In fact, in the early 1950s I...
Passion for weather led to popular Facebook page
When he was a young boy, Chris Henry experienced a thunder and lightning storm while living in San Jose that he said, “freaked me out and I became obsessed with the weather.”
At age 10, the family moved to Morgan Hill and two years after...
Student filmmakers set to shine at Gav showcase
Gavilan College will host its Eighth Annual Film Showcase from 6-8:30pm April 26 at the theater on the Gilroy campus. The free event will feature about 25 student films and finish with an awards presentation for outstanding filmmaking achievements.
The showcase presents films created by...