Driver dies in Highway 101 wreck
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a fatality on Highway 101 after a driver crashed underneath the Buena Vista Avenue overpass in Gilroy Monday morning.
According to CHP communications, the driver of a sedan was traveling northbound on Highway 101 at about 10:44am when, for...
Personal care industry reopens after a year of stops and starts
Shag Salon, like every other salon across the state, has had a rollercoaster of a year.
The salon was one of the businesses deemed “non-essential” during the initial Covid-19 shelter-in-place order, and shut down on March 17. It was allowed to reopen in July, but...
Officers who took down festival gunman honored
The three Gilroy Police officers who took down the gunman at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 2019 were awarded the State of California Governor's Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor.
Robert Basuino, Eric Cryar and Hugo Del Moral recently received the medals from Assistant Chief...
Lofgren visits Salinas Valley, receives nod from Panetta, Rivas
As the decennial redistricting process wrapped up last month, the concern from The World’s Salad Bowl started to mount. Local politicians, regional business giants and other community leaders asked how a plan to pair the international agricultural hub with the Silicon Valley could stand.
Now,...
A century in the library started by Carnegie
Given prominent front page coverage on Nov. 11, 1905, the Gilroy Advocate newspaper exclaimed “Library Site Promised!”
Mr. Garlic passes the bulb
Dressed in his puffy white costume, his cowboy hat decorated with garlic bulbs and wearing his trademark Birkenstocks, he strolls through the grounds of Christmas Hill Park, and everywhere he goes, choruses of, “Hey it’s the Garlic Dude,” are shouted by children and adults alike.
Man injured in Dec. 21 stabbing in Gilroy
A man was injured in a stabbing incident near a Gilroy apartment complex Tuesday night, according to police.
About 8:30pm Dec. 21, a 40-year-old man was stabbed by a suspect on the 200 block of East Tenth Street, according to Gilroy Police Sgt. John Ballard....
Gilroy High field hockey team team could be in for special season
The Gilroy High field hockey program has been one of the Central Coast Section’s most consistent for the better part of two decades.
Year in, year out, the Mustangs reach the playoffs and contend or win league championships. After a CCS quarterfinal appearance last year,...
Christopher Ranch workers get vaccinated
Christopher Ranch employees are receiving their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine March 4-5, and officials plan to vaccinate about 1,000 farmworkers over the two-day clinic.
The Gilroy-based company partnered with Santa Clara County Public Health to host the clinic, becoming the next major farmer...
Santa Clara County expects more vaccine doses this month
Santa Clara County now expects to get 39,300 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in December, in addition to doses of the Pfizer vaccine, public health officials announced Wednesday.
