Firm sniffs out good deal on garlic building
The former Gilroy Garlic Festival building may finally be
Breaking: Planning commission approves mosque
The Santa Clara County Planning Commission approved plans to build the Cordoba Center in San Martin – a mosque, cemetery and meeting place for the South Valley Islamic Community – at its meeting late Thursday afternoon, according to Hamdy Abbass, spokesman for SVIC who attended the meeting in San Jose.
Food distribution facility gets OK from council
By summer of 2015, the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor to the natural, organic and specialty foods industry in North America, plans to have a new distribution center operational in the Garlic Capital.
Conflicts plague valley water district decisions
SAN JOSE—The Santa Clara Valley Water District, water wholesaler to 1.8 million people, has championed local conservation. The public agency runs three treatment plants for drinking water. It also manages 10 dams and reservoirs, 400 ponds that replenish our groundwater and 275 miles of creeks and streams.
Santa Clara County DA leaves Twitter due to hate speech
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Dec. 5 that he will deactivate his office's Twitter account due to the recent rise in hate speech on the platform.
In a statement, Rosen called on other district attorneys around the country to leave Twitter in...
UPDATED: Mayor reverses, wants Welcome Center funded
GILROY—In an abrupt and unexpected about face, Mayor Don Gage has reversed his stand to strip the Gilroy Welcome Center of $200,000 in city funding.
