Meals For Heroes program grows
Cecily Murray may live in Mountain View, but her heart remains firmly entrenched in South Valley. How else to explain her efforts to pay it forward with the Meals for Heroes program? On Jan. 3, Murray took it upon herself to deliver dozens of...
Christopher girls volleyball has come back strong
After the greatest season in program history in 2019, the Christopher High girls volleyball team fell on hard times.
First, the Cougars had to disband the team early in the 2021 spring Covid season due to a variety of factors. They didn’t fare any better...
18-year-old ID’d as Oct. 30 shooting victim
Authorities identified the person who died in the Oct. 30 shooting at a Gilroy city council member’s home as 18-year-old Michael Daniel Zuniga-Macias.
Zuniga-Macias was one of four people shot at the home of Rebeca Armendariz during a large outdoor party on the 400 block...
Rotary awards $70k to Gilroy community
The Rotary Club of Gilroy, at a Jan. 28 meeting at the Lodge on the Hill, celebrated the recipients of $70,000 in grants for local schools and organizations. Funding for the grants came from the Gilroy Rotary Endowment, which was established in 1991 to...
Amazon confirms Hollister facility
Amazon will be the tenant of a delivery center under construction at the corner of San Felipe and Flynn roads in Hollister, a company spokesperson confirmed with this publication.
Grading work recently got underway on the 25.5-acre property after the Hollister Planning Commission on Jan....
‘Aggressive’ non-native mosquito found in Gilroy
A non-native Aedes aegypti mosquito—an aggressive species that can spread certain diseases—has been discovered in a residential area of Gilroy, according to the Santa Clara County Vector Control District. A mosquito of the same species was also found recently in a neighborhood of east...
Gilroy election: Blankley, Hilton remain in lead as registrar continues to count ballots
The latest Nov. 5 election results from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office show Mayor Marie Blankley continuing to lead challenger Greg Bozzo by about 200 votes, as of about 5pm Nov. 7.
Zach Hilton is the only one of three incumbents up...
County healthcare patients to receive refunds
About 43,000 former patients of Santa Clara Valley Healthcare (SCVH) will soon receive notice of possible billing corrections and refunds as part of a settlement between Santa Clara County and some past patients of the public hospital system.
The county said in a news release...
Small businesses have more time to pay back rent
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors extended its eviction protections last week for small businesses, giving tenants more time to pay back rent due to financial losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Haoyun Erin Zhao opens exhibit in downtown Morgan Hill
CURA Contemporary in downtown Morgan Hill on May 3 opened a new exhibit, “Cloud Inscriptions,” a solo show by San Francisco-based artist Haoyun Erin Zhao. The exhibit features paintings “that explore movement and impermanence evoking the ethereal, transient nature of existence,” said Nicole Czapinski,...
