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With a little help from four-legged friends, Santa Clara County broke ground June 26 on a new $35.3 million, 37,000 square-foot Animal Services Center in San Martin. The facility, set on 4.5 acres, is scheduled to open in 2021, in a state-of-the-art complex designed by...

Mayor Roland Velasco has promised a yearlong celebration to honor Gilroy’s 150th birthday. The first thing that needed to be done to kick off the party was the selection of a special 150th celebration logo. The council unanimously approved the logo at the July 1...

The City of Gilroy’s wages and benefits for its city workers place it among the top 20 percent in the entire state, according to a new report. In her annual report of Government Compensation in California, 2018, State Comptroller Betty Yee reported that  the average...

Santa Cruz’s Good Times weekly has purchased the 151-year-old Watsonville Register-Pajaronian and its companion publication Aptos Life from News Media Corp. of Rochelle, Illinois. Good Times is an affiliate of New SV Media, which publishes the Gilroy Dispatch. New SV Media will operate News Media’s...

It’s cherry-picking time at the Lazy K Ranch Cherry Farm, east of Gilroy off Canada Road. The family-owned and -operated ranch ended the month of June with its second “u-pick” event, and families from all over the South Valley responded by filling their buckets...

Nissan of Gilroy broke ground on its new dealership at 6807 Automall Parkway. The dealership will move all of its operations from 400 Automall Drive to the new location by early 2020, owner Don Groppetti said. The new dealership will be built on what is currently...

Eight members of the Gilroy High boys and girls golf teams got to go inside the ropes—literally—to watch last month's U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. Sebastian Nunez, Jackie Torres, Sami Fuhrman, Abby Clark, Ashlyn Torres, Jade Gardner, Leonardo Nunez and Ben Guaracha all served...

Neil Kitchens, a Republican candidate who ran an unsuccessful campaign for the 30th District State Assembly seat in 2018, has been charged with five counts of election fraud. Kitchens pleaded not guilty at an arraignment June 27 in Monterey County Superior Court, according to court...

Local school district leaders have agreed to allow parking at three of its sites for the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, July 26-28 at Christmas Hill Park. A memorandum of understanding, approved by Gilroy Unified School District’s Board of Education June 13, permits festival parking at...

The suicide rate in Santa Clara County dropped for the third consecutive year in 2017, federal health officials reported. The decline in county suicides for the most recent reported year, to 6.95 suicides per 100,000 people in 2017, is in contrast to national suicide rates,...