South County teens build haunted house business in Morgan Hill
What started as a childhood passion has transformed into a professional haunted house operation run by two local teenagers who are proving that age is no barrier to entrepreneurship.
Jack Teresi, 19, and Luke Conor, 18, are the co-designers behind Ethereal Acres, a home-grown haunted...
Local Scene: Gilroy Garlic Festival Golf Classic is June 21
Gilroy Garlic Festival Golf Classic is June 21
The annual Gilroy Garlic Festival Golf Classic will be held June 21 at Gilroy Golf Course, with proceeds to benefit the nonprofit Gilroy Garlic Festival Association.
Since 1979, the Garlic Festival Association has distributed more than $12 million...
Christopher baseball team caps improbable CCS title run with dominating finish
The future has arrived for the Christopher High baseball team.
That much was evident after the upstart Cougars dominated Sacred Heart Prep 8-1 in the Central Coast Section Division V championship game May 26 at Excite Ballpark, formerly known as San Jose Municipal Stadium.
Christopher...
After family relocates from the East Coast to the West, Ruben Le makes his move on the mat
Gilroy High junior Ruben Le and his family made the cross country move a couple of years ago from Boston to what locals refer to as the garlic capital of the world.
However, it didn’t take long for him to make a name for himself...
Weekend heat advisory issued in Santa Clara Valley
Temperatures in the Santa Clara Valley are expected to reach the high 90s and low 100s this weekend, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a heat advisory warning.
The warning starts on Friday at noon and lasts until Sunday night.
The weather service said hottest...
Gilroy insurance agent found guilty of repeated sexual assault
A Gilroy insurance agent was found guilty of 20 counts of sexual assault in Santa Clara County Superior Court last week.
Following a jury trial, Jeffrey Guenther, 38, was convicted of 10 counts of oral copulation by duress and 10 counts of sodomy by duress,...
Festive fright
Don and Lisa Billips have been decorating their Church Street yard and home for Halloween every year since they moved in about a decade ago.
Each year, their decorations become more and more intricate, with more props, bigger characters and better ideas. Now, Don said...
San Mateo woman dies in traffic crash in Gilroy
A San Mateo woman died in a collision with a big-rig on Highway 152 in Gilroy on Dec. 9, according to authorities.
About 3:15pm, the California Highway Patrol received reports of a traffic crash on State Route 152, west of State Route 156 in Gilroy....
Eden Rift: Where the past is present
I recently went out to visit another winery in San Benito County, where the wineries and the wines share a similar place in the world of California regions—we had a history of being leaders in winemaking going back to the 19th century, we are...
Religion: God and the stranger
On Oct. 7, 1885 a 16-year-old German barber named Friedrich boarded a ship for New York. Fleeing the military service then required in Germany, he became one of over a million German immigrants who flooded these shores between 1880 and 1885.
Once he had accumulated...
