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November 1, 2025

Community pulse: Do you like the suggested motto for Gilroy

Do you like the suggested motto for Gilroy:

Carroll K. Hurd

Carroll K. Hurd, age 93, a long time Gilroy resident, entered peacefully into eternal rest at the home of his daughter and son-in-law in San Jose, CA. He had moved there after suffering a fall in 2005.

30 great glorious Garlic Festival years … and here’s to 30 more

While pondering 30 glorious Gilroy Garlic Festival years, we're

Robert Eugene Corbett

Robert Eugene Corbett of Gilroy, engineering consultant and long-time Lockheed defense technology executive died peacefully at his home on July 20, 2008. He had been battling colon cancer. Mr. Corbett was born May 9, 1941 in Philadelphia the oldest of eight children of Eugene Charles and Dolores Marie Hoffmann. He was an electrical engineer who worked the first half of his career in space power systems development, principally with Lockheed Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale, California and then the next half of his career in commercial lighting with several leading firms including Motorola, International Rectifier, Boeing and Magnetek. He finally launched an engineering and technology consulting firm in the last six years specializing in advanced lighting products for consumer and industrial applications. He and colleagues had recently been granted U.S.patent 7,375,476 for a pioneering lighting device.

Stories of Service: Bud Burchell

In this Story of Service, Bud Burchell talks about being the

Volunteers needed for hospice and leader needed for parade

Volunteers are needed to help hospice patients who are being

Working on the garden railroad tour to lend a hand

By day, he runs his own company as an environmental contractor,

Lifestyles of the rich and shameless

Ah, the Gumball 3000 Rally, an event that's as fun to watch as

Garage sale success

Colleen Edwards of Fresno offered the following suggestions for

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