Prep Basketball: 7 earn spot on All-Star rosters
SALINAS — Seven Gilroy-area ballers will get their chance to shine once more this season as they take the court for the 7th Annual North-South High School All-Star Basketball Classic Friday at the Boys and Girls Club in Salinas.
WERC animal of the month: turkey vulture
In September, the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center
Garlic Festival to return in 2020
The Gilroy Garlic Festival Association made it official this week: The festival will return to Christmas Hill Park in 2020.
In announcing the festival’s return to the scene of the fatal mass shooting, 2020 Gilroy Garlic Festival President Tom Cline said, “This year was a...
Robot room service in GIlroy
The newest employee at Gilroy’s Hilton Garden Inn never sleeps or eats. And with the opening of the latest Star Wars movie this week, he’s bound to have plenty of young fans.
He’s a three-foot-high, 100-pound robot named Archie, who delivers room service food and...
Open Space Authority founders recall its vision
Virginia Holtz grew up in Washington State and at a young age lived in a log house in a state park not far from Seattle. Her father was the caretaker of the park and her grandparents were farmers. Holtz’s childhood was spent outdoors; she recalls seeing the local Native Americans fishing for eels and watching tadpoles grow legs and become frogs. When she married and moved to Santa Clara County in 1979, she was shocked at the rapid, unplanned development going on all around her. In contrast, people in Washington seemed to place a high priority on open space, parks, lakes and farmland.
