Farmers’ market feud in town
The new downtown Morgan Hill Thursday night farmers’ market has only been open for two weeks, and has already drawn the ire of its firmly established cross-block Saturday morning competitor.
Open Space Authority pays $2.8 million for Gilroy land
GILROY—The Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority this week purchased 183 acres of farmland south of Gilroy to help permanently protect land where Llagas Creek flows into the Pajaro River. The public agency now owns or controls more than 16,000 acres, according to spokesperson Patty Eaton.
GUSD wraps up sexual harassment investigation
Two months after the Gilroy Unified School District launched a “serious” sexual harassment investigation centered around the Christopher High School cafeteria male manager, who allegedly made vulgar sexual advances on his female subordinates, the alleged perpetrator remains at work while his supervisor has quietly “retired.”
Indoor mask mandate returns to Santa Clara County
Health officials in seven Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley issued a new indoor mask mandate Monday as the region faces a wave of new Covid-19 cases due to the more infectious delta variant and the remaining swath of unvaccinated residents.
The mandate...
