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Authorities have canceled an Amber Alert for an 11-year-old girl who was abducted by an armed suspect at a San Jose home early Friday morning.

It was a rough night all around for Gilroy teams. Aside from the Gilroy High boys soccer team, which tied San Benito 1-1, the local teams were on the wrong ends of the results. The CHS girls basketball and soccer teams suffered their first league losses, while the CHS boys basketball team dipped below .500 in the MBL.

The 32nd annual Mid Cals is in full swing at Gilrly High school this morning. The two-day tournament is in its preliminary stages, building toward the always entertaining finals under the spotlight on center mat.

Rivalries usually consist of teams trading wins game in and game out. But in boys soccer, the Gilroy and San Benito rivalry has been mostly one sided – tilting toward the Mustangs.

Gilroy residents and business owners have until Monday to formally protest the city’s plans to raise sewer service rates more than 40 percent over the next five years – a necessary spike, officials say, that will fund anticipated rising costs in maintenance and wastewater operations.

In 1870, the not-yet Garlic Capital of the world was actually considered the Tobacco Capital of the United States.

In 2003, a formal district review of Gilroy High School revealed the 33-year-old campus needs $30 million in repairs and renovations. 

Fred Lonnberg’s father hitched him up to an equine trailer and sent him rolling from Redding to Klamath Falls, Ore., to work as an apprentice to a race horse assistant.

A proposed sewer fee hike isn't the only item up for debate at Monday's 6 p.m. Gilroy City Council meeting.