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January 2, 2026

Between Us: When kids grow up

The last time I wrote a column for a newspaper, I was a mere 38 years old. My daughter, The Girl, hadn’t graduated high school yet, and my son, The Boy, wasn’t even a twinkle in the metaphoric eye of Gilroy’s South Valley Middle School.

PHOTO: Ride the Gardens

Bikers rolled into Gilroy Gardens on May 21 for the first-ever Ride the Gardens.  The event was part of Bike to Wherever Month, where everyone is encouraged to pedal around town, to do errands, commute to work, to Gilroy’s parks, along the levee trail and...

Cathryn (Whitmore) Bauer

Cathryn, youngest daughter of Betty and Bruce (deceased) Whitmore, has died after a brief illness with cancer. She attended elementary school in Morgan Hill, high school in Willamina, OR, and college at Chico State, graduating with a Master of Science degree. She is survived by her mother and five sisters, Jayne Xavier, Janeen Whitmore, Carol Arthur, Karen Coonen, Kristen Keller. Services were held on July 24, 2009.

Covid-19 pop-up testing site in Gilroy extended

Santa Clara County’s pop-up Covid-19 testing site in Gilroy will continue July 14-18. The site, located at the South County Annex (formerly Antonio Del Buono Elementary), 9300 Wren Ave., first opened July 7. It provides Covid-19 viral detection tests free of charge without an appointment, symptoms,...

School trustee heads push for eastside community pool

A Gilroy school board trustee is leading the charge for the construction of a new community pool on the east side of the city, which has had no public aquatic facilities since the closing of the old pool at South Valley Middle School nearly...

Red Barn must cut vendors by half

A last-minute bid to keep more Red Barn flea market vendors in

Police looking into possible child abduction attempt

Police are investigating an alleged attempted abduction of a

Red Phone: A garden downtown?

Dear Red Phone, With the city not being able to fund the art and

Small plane crashes into weigh station

A small plane slammed into the front of the California Highway

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