News

Tom Cline has garnered the most cash for his Gilroy City Council bid among the six candidates, campaign finance documents show. Cline, the owner of Cline Glass Contractors and a Gilroy Garlic Festival board member, has raised $27,345 since March, according to forms filed with...

The game card reads, “Rush Hour Traffic! Go Directly to Traffic Jam. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.” Sound familiar? If you said, “Yes, a little like Monopoly,” you’d be right. This particular Monopoly-style game has a distinctly local flavor—in fact, local landmarks and streets:...

Artists showcased their work to downtown visitors during the Third Friday Art Walk on March 18, organized by 6th Street Studios & Art Center. This month’s walk, the first of 2022, featured seven stops along Monterey Street and surrounding areas.

The Christopher-Live Oak boys lacrosse match on March 24 pitted a top-three team from the Gabilan Division and the front runner from the lower division.  For right now, at least, the Acorns showed the chasm between the Gabilan and Mission is a rather wide one.  Live...

Two multi-generational farming families recently formed a partnership on land in Gilroy that aims to preserve agriculture for the long haul in Santa Clara Valley—which is becoming increasingly difficult to do—and bring more fresh, locally grown and organic produce directly to households, restaurants and...

A plan to annex 55 acres of land into Gilroy’s city limits, which could eventually house 307 residential units, may be considered in early 2023 after more than 20 years in the works. Known as the Wren Investors and Hewell Urban Service Area Amendment, 50...

Palo Alto Police Chief Robert “Rob” Jonsen led retired sheriff’s captain Kevin Jensen in the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s race Tuesday, widening an early lead in his bid to be the first new county sheriff in more than two decades. With 90% of precincts reporting,...

The San Martin Airport could become a lot busier in about a decade, if the county decides to close the Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose. And with the extra air traffic could follow an increased airborne concentration of lead, which has been a longtime concern...

Santa Clara County supervisors approved a quartet of housing projects March 22 that will convert existing properties into more than 300 affordable housing units. The board unanimously approved the purchase of four properties—two in San Jose, one in Morgan Hill and one in Santa Clara—that...

Learning Services Corporation has continued to build futures for people with acquired brain injuries in Gilroy for more than 25 years.  Pictured are KayRee Shreeve, program manager, Prandy Kelly, case manager, Eleanor Saavedra, program nurse, Guadalupe Zambrano, managing lead, Lindsey L’Amoreaux, day program coordinator, and Rebecca Kurumada, national director of marketing. The ribbon-cutting was held Jan. 12. For more information, call (408) 848-4379.