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Dogs brought their humans to Christmas Hill Park the morning of Sept. 14 for South County Tail Waggers' third annual 5K Walking Wagathon. A portion of the event’s proceeds will be donated to the Gilroy Garlic Festival Victims Relief Fund through the Gilroy Foundation,...

The Farmworker Housing Act of 2019, introduced by Assemblymember Robert Rivas of Hollister, passed the California Assembly and State Senate. For Rivas, who represents the 30th district in the Assembly, the passage of the bill in his first term is personal. His grandfather was a...

The Uesugi Pumpkin Park is back again this fall for its 34th year in Morgan Hill.

The Gilroy City Council voted unanimously Sept. 9 to amend the city code, adding a new definition of firearms and banning so-called imitation firearms, with some exceptions.   “Imitation firearms”—air guns, pellet guns, and BB guns that resemble real firearms—are increasingly being used in crimes across...

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:...

Work on the Monterey Street paving project continued the week of Sept. 10, part of a continued push by the city to revitalize Gilroy’s downtown and make the area more inviting to patrons and businesses. Construction began a month ago and was expected to...

A vehicle accident that ended on the railroad tracks at Monterey and Leavesley roads Sept. 8 resulted in extensive damage to the train crossing signal and gate arms that regulate motorists at the busy Gilroy intersection. Union Pacific Railroad crews were still busy the morning...

Seven Morgan Hill students and two Gilroy teens have been named as semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship program.

Construction of a new Pacheco Reservoir has been given an important thumbs-up in a new environmental impact statement released last month. The project would build a new dam and expanded reservoir on the North Fork of Pacheco Creek that could hold 140,000 acre-feet of water,...

The board of trustees of the Gilroy Unified School District voted Sept. 5 to close its first elementary school in 17 years, and one of its newest: Antonio Del Buono in north Gilroy. The school board vote, with trustee Enrique Diaz objecting, followed a gloomy...