CROSS COUNTRY: Villanueva, Rivera pacing young Mustangs through cross country season
Nine runners. That's it. That is all. Nine returning members. Fortunately for the Gilroy High cross country team, two of them are seniors, who coach Cathy Silva endorses with flying colors.
Workshops give tools to achieve college dreams
The conference is called “No Excuses,” named by students who felt, after last year’s installment, they could be the first in their family to go to college.
GOLF: Locals take a swing at the PGA
More than 80 local golfers took to the links Wednesday, in the first step to earning a spot in the 2012 Frys.com Open, which kicks off next week.
Locals cross about lack of crosswalk
From before the time a child learns to talk, he is taught two things about road safety: to look both ways before you cross the street, and to always cross the street at a crosswalk.
Pumpkin perfection
The recent 100-degree weather doesn’t exactly inspire scarf wearing, leaf pile jumping or the imbibing of piping hot pumpkin spice lattes.
Lenders working to resolve fate of Sargent Ranch
The core dispute surrounding 6,400 pristine acres just south of Gilroy – a magnet for real estate developers, a Holy Grail to nature conservationists and “most sacred grounds” to a local Native American tribe – could begin to unravel in court this month if the property’s dozens of investors find common ground.
Coe Park advocates ‘cautiously optimistic’
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed two major legislative measures that mandate a number of funding and oversight improvements to California State parks, but the road to regaining the faith of a group of local outdoor enthusiasts - who fundraised a quarter of a million dollars to keep Henry Coe Park in South County open to the public - is going to be an arduous hike.
