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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...

It’s time to get out those dancing shoes and hit downtown Gilroy: Capos Night Club and Restaurant is now open. City officials and community members joined the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the establishment’s grand opening on June 20 at 7588 Monterey St. The business...

People filled a block of Monterey Street downtown and rocked out to the classic rock tunes of JJ Hawg during the first Downtown Live concert of the season June 20. Organized by the Gilroy Downtown Business Association, the series will run Thursday nights, 5-9pm...

Gilroy Garlic Festival organizers are gearing up for the 41st annual event, which is a month away. At the festival’s first-ever Saturday evening concert, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Colbie Caillat will appear with her new band Gone West live on the Amphitheater Stage. The concert is...

The City of Gilroy celebrated the first week of summer with a special family swim day at the Christopher High School pool, at the northwest Gilroy campus, 850 Day Road. The city’s Christopher Aquatic Center, with a small child play area, pool and water...

The Fourth of July celebration in Gilroy are sure to go off with a bang, as the city-sponsored legal fireworks show returns at 9:30pm near Gilroy High School. The fireworks will be set off on the softball field, but no one will be allowed near...

Gilroy Unified School District has hired an environmental firm to remove soil with “higher than normal levels of arsenic in the dirt” at Brownell Middle School, 7800 Carmel St. According to the documents, a soil sample in the Preliminary Environmental Assessment turned up the arsenic...