Baseball: Garcia wins GHS home run derby
Rafael “Bubu” Garcia won Gilroy High’s First Pitch home run derby Saturday with a blast over the left-field fence to edge Matt Hemeon in a swing-off after the two batters were tied at one homer apiece in the second round.
Christopher uses dominant defense and big plays on offense to beat Gilroy in Severance Bowl
Severance Bowl bragging rights belong to the Christopher High football team—again.
The Cougars continued their domination of Gilroy High with a superior performance in the latest game of this crosstown rivalry, pulling away for a 20-0 win on Oct. 1. Christopher limited the Mustangs to...
DA: Police dad will not be charged in shooting death of toddler son
Three months after the July 5 accidental shooting of a 3-year-old Gilroy boy and son of a San Jose Police officer shook the community, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced they are not prosecuting the boy's parents.
Gilroy’s sales tax flat for fourth quarter
Gilroy’s sales tax was flat in the fourth quarter of 2012 as a direct result of fewer shoppers spending at the Gilroy Outlets. It's the first time in 12 quarters that the City’s sales tax receipts have leveled off.
Sheriff’s blotter: Boy has party, father returns home to find watch, cell phone stolen
A Swiss Army watch and a cell phone were stolen from a home on
Time to stand together
The massacre last week at the French satire publication Charlie Hebdo was a direct affront to our freedoms of speech and expression. Sunday’s march in Paris was an expression of solidarity and the fact that we won’t cower to the terrorist acts of extremists of any stripe. As journalists, we must never allow anyone or anything to affect our right to speak and report freely and to express our opinions. Free speech and expression were a relative novelty on planet Earth at the violent birth of our republic nearly 240 years ago. Patriots who called themselves Americans even before we existed as a nation died for what they believed and we continue to believe to be among the fundamental rights of humankind. And Americans have died ever since protecting and defending those freedoms and those who enjoy them, often perhaps with little thought to the sacrifices or what their world would be like absent free speech and expression. In the wake of the Paris massacre of journalists, Jews and police officers targeted by those who murder in the name of religion, we as Americans must be vigilant, stand like steel and never surrender what is right and what so many have laid down their lives and loved ones to safe-keep for the future of this country and the world.
