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December 22, 2024

Porcella’s legacy: Downtown store, in the family since 1898, has shut its doors

For more than 130 years, the cozy brick building at 7357 Monterey St. was a community hub, with countless generations of Gilroyans and others from nearby stopping in for daily goods, getting a haircut, and later, purchasing musical instruments. It was a place where aspiring...

Police look for MH Safeway purse snatcher

For the second time in a month, a purse was snatched from a

Racing for a reason

For decades, Paul Zarka has made his living out of helping

County board of education redraws lines

The Santa Clara County Board of Education redrew its lines for county school districts, putting Gilroy's representative in a tight spot for 2014. 

Middle school ascension

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Naturals La Siesta Spa celebrates 20 years

Naturals La Siesta Spa owner Maria Shropshire and manager Cindi

News briefs: City encourages reusable bags

Though the City of Gilroy is not banning plastic bans, the

GUSD determines layoffs, hearing scheduled for May

The Gilroy Unified School District on Thursday announced layoffs

Lee Nora Marie Cone Filice

Lee Nora passed away in Jackson, CA. She was born in Fresno, CA to Ella and Oscar Cone. She attended school in Taft and graduated from Taft HS in 1934. She attended UC Berkeley. She met her husband Louis Filice at the cannery in San Jose. They were married in Oakland in 1938. They moved to the Triple F Ranch in Gilroy in 1944. She was a homemaker and taught at local schools. Louis passed away in 1966. She spent her later years living in the mountains near Volcano, CA and most recently in Sutters Creek. She was a wonderful seamstress, avid reader and gardener. She was involved in the Jackson Women's Club and loved watching sports on TV. Proceeded in death by her husband, her sons Alan & Ronald, her brother Gerald and her sister Iola. Survived by daughters Kathleen Orlando and Sylvia Meyer(both of Modesto),niece Annette Barbier(Burlingame),daughter-in-law Roxane Filice (La Quinta),four granddaughters and six great-grandchildren.

Student of the Week: Alondra Navarro

Alondra Navarro, a 17-year-old senior at GECA (the Dr. TJ Owens Gilroy Early College Academy) is this week's "Student of the Week."

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