BASEBALL: Gavilan snaps three-game losing streak with 3-2 victory
Working through its most trying stretch of the season, Gavilan baseball halted its three-game Coast Conference losing skid with a 3-2 victory over Cabrillo on Thursday in Gilroy.
Plea postponed for woman charged with two murders
The plea hearing for the Gilroy woman who has been charged on two counts of murder for allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car accident that killed her husband and daughter was once again postponed Thursday afternoon.
A guide to facts behind the teen’s disappearance
The answers to the following questions should help summarize what’s happened so far in the Sierra LaMar investigation, inform how the community can help, and provide some useful background to the case.
Used condoms, handcuffs box found during search
Used condoms and an empty handcuff box were found Thursday by a volunteer searcher at the west end of Palm Avenue, about a mile from missing teen Sierra LaMar’s bus stop in Morgan Hill, though Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Thursday night that “it’s possibly nothing.”
Dancing, used police firearms on city council agenda
On Monday, the Gilroy City Council will consider a new, more specific version of the city's entertainment ordinance that could relax regulations on dancing downtown.
Romero murder suspects’ hearing postponed
The plea hearing for the five suspects accused of killing Tara Romero, 14, and trying to kill three other teens Nov. 4, 2011 was postponed.
St. Mary’s holds its annual Sports Awards ceremony
Led by athlteic director Jon Sanchez, St Mary’s School held its annual Sports Awards ceremony for its winter basketball program.
Hey! Take a hike
It has been a dry winter and the trivial rainfall we have received has left the hills a timid shade of green.
Honor for Mike
Before he became a Gavilan Community College trustee, Rotary Club member, church choir singer, Leadership Morgan Hill graduate, business owner, avid fisherman and horseback rider, and a long list of other titles reflecting what his friends classify as unwavering ambition and devotion to those around him far and wide, Mike Davenport was an officer in the U.S. Navy.
A stone’s throw from home
McAlpine Lake is nature at its unnatural best. Aside from the obvious – a 40-foot-deep ecosystem holding 90 million gallons of artesian spring water tapped from below – the manmade fishing hole and accompanying park near San Juan Bautista are a haven for wildlife and landscaped as if evolution took a favorable, gradual toll on the property.
