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April 3, 2025

Children’s Business Fair will showcase young creators

About a year ago, my mother asked me if I might be interested in participating in the Inaugural Acton Children's Business Fair of Morgan Hill, taking place in July 2021. We sat together and researched the parent organization and agreed that the ACBF of...

GEPDA rescues dogs, giving them a place of refuge in the process

The Group Education to Protect and Defend Animals (GEPDA) has prevented countless dogs from being euthanized since its inception in 2004. But due to a variety of factors, the South Valley rescue organization is wobbling on its last legs—no pun intended. Run out of Director...

Young Gilroy entrepreneur’s collectible business taking off

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AJ Jimenez, at only 21 years old, has already set a list of goals he wants to accomplish in his life. The Gilroy native has checked one of the boxes, having opened his own business, Collectables N’ Stuff, in the Gilroy Premium Outlets more than...

Garlic harvest beats expectations

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With nearly 105 million pounds of garlic consisting of more than one billion bulbs, Christopher Ranch’s 2022 season is the strongest it has been in recent years. Ken Christopher, executive vice president of the Gilroy-based company, said ideal weather conditions, such as a cool winter...

Sean Anthony’s Refinishing owner retires after more than four decades

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Sean Anthony Geiger, drill in hand, climbed up a ladder to take down a sign that had been fastened to a Church Street building for 35 years. However, Geiger struggled to remove the screws in the weathered sign with the drill, as they had become...

All Seasons Pool Service celebrates 30 years

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All Seasons Pool Service recently announced that it is celebrating 30 years of providing pool cleaning and maintenance services for residential and commercial clients in Gilroy, Morgan Hill and the South County area. Owner Dean Filice started the business in 1992 with a route of...

Brilliant blooms: Flower breeder showcases the latest trends in home gardening

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The “future of work” has accelerated due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with many workers ditching the commute and instead setting up their home offices. With people spending more time at home, many want their space to be more visually pleasant. So, they turn to the brightness...

Articulate Solutions celebrating 30 years

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When Gilroy artist Katherine Filice sat down at her kitchen table and started sketching logos for local businesses in the early 1990s, she could not have imagined that she would be celebrating three decades later alongside business partner Jason Raby and a team of...

City seeks consultants for Amazon project

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The City of Gilroy is seeking consultants to draft a report that explores the environmental effects of Amazon’s proposed data center in the city. The city will accept bids until May 2 for Amazon Web Services’ proposed data center campus on Camino Arroyo, just south...

BookBuyers’ epilogue: Downtown bookstore closing April 15

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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...

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