Don’t Flush: Put Drugs Here
Gilroy Police officer Bobby Zuniga demonstrates the new “Don’t Rush to Flush” bin at the Gilroy Police Department (7301 Hanna St.). The bin was established as part of a $276,000 dollar grant funded project to place and promote 50 bins around the county to ensure that prescription drugs don't get into the water supply.
Wasserman announces summer photo contest
Supervisor Mike Wasserman is giving South County shutterbugs a
Firm suspends GUSD trustee’s high-speed rail contract
A firm hired to perform high-speed rail outreach in the South Bay Area has suspended the contract of a Gilroy school board trustee facing two separate investigations by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office - including one for allegedly falsifying parts of invoices totaling more than $37,000, the Dispatch has learned.
County in critical need of election officers
With only a few weeks until Election Day Nov. 6, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters’ Office is facing a critical shortage of volunteers to serve at the 849 polling places throughout the county, according to an Oct. 15 announcement.
Over 1,000 Election Officers...
G-Town: The County’s Fastest Growing City
Gilroy is the fastest growing city in Santa Clara County with 1,159 new residents in 2016, according to a demographics report released by the California Department of Finance New State Population Report.
Carrot and stick: city’s URM strategy
For the past year, Gilroy Mayor Don Gage and Council Member Perry Woodward have been individually meeting with owners of downtown’s 18 unreinforced masonry buildings and city staff. The pair claimed a victory this month; two buildings have been officially taken off the list of structures deemed unfit to survive a high magnitude earthquake after sufficient retrofitting.
County board reduces car allowance for department heads
San Benito County supervisors reduced the car allowance for appointed department heads from $500 to $350 at last week’s board of supervisors' meeting, while there were concerns from one department head that there should be some exemptions to the allowance.
Thousands of local ballots are uncounted
On Monday, Nov. 12, schools, banks and government offices were closed—except employees of the Santa Clara County Clerk’s elections office. Like their counterparts across California—and in many other states—they were busy validating and counting bagsful of ballots mailed at the last minute.
In California, Nov....
Morgan Hill caught in golf course Catch-22
Morgan Hill is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard
