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Littermates Aladdin and Merlin are 8 months old. They are sweet, playful and good with other cats. They have been at the San Martin Animal Shelter since June 2011. If you are interested in adopting this or any other animal at the shelter, please call (408) 686-3900.

The effort to keep insidious quagga mussels out of Nacimiento Lake is entering a new phase, and the San Luis Obispo County Public Works Department is seeking $106,000 to retain the engineering firm that has guided much of its efforts for another year.

Our beloved Zoe Lynn Trentz passed on early Thursday morning at the age of 60 from a long and courageous battle with cancer.

These are the Gilroy Police Department incidents from Jan. 5 to 9.

March is Women's History Month. To commemorate the outstanding women in our communities, Assemblymember Luis A. Alejo will name one leader from the district the 2012 Woman of the Year.

Matt van Keulen has joined the Colliers International team in Gilroy. Prior to joining Colliers International, van Keulen had been working for Cassidy Turley Northern California in San Jose on various land, retail and industrial projects. At Colliers, he will work alongside Senior Vice Presidents Mark Sanchez and Jeff Barnes while developing his expertise in various commercial real estate areas within the South San Jose, Morgan Hill, Gilroy and Hollister areas.

A split Gilroy City Council voted 4-3 Monday night to place a lien on a former developer's home for more than $2,300 - a penalty that once stood at approximately $45,000 before the city realized it couldn't recover a bulk of attorney fees associated with the case.