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December 5, 2025

Guest Column: How to fix downtown?

I read Successful Smaller Downtowns & Business Districts: What Every Businessperson, Property Owner, and Municipal Official Should Know, by John L. Gann Jr., and got some inspirations for downtown Gilroy.

Farm to Table at the garden was a hit; more are coming

Succulent fare, a beautiful garden ambiance, fine wine and clucking chickens, the hits at the first Farm to Table Dinner this year at the Gilroy Demonstration Garden. Volunteers from the garden hosted the evening as part of a fundraising drive to keep the Eden of downtown Gilroy on Eigleberry Street growing, but also to celebrate community and to show off seven years of progress of the community garden.

Fourth of July was no picnic in Gilroy

Loudest in history, some said

Gilroy’s downtown Eden serves food in the field

Gilroy’s downtown Eden serves food in the field Demonstration Garden hosted a gourmet dinner outdoors

Leadership group seeks big mural

Artist Sheryl Cathers commissioned for giant wall

Gilroy’s exotic Oaxacan market and restaurant serves rare specialties

Oaxaca is thought to be the gourmet food capital of Mexico, with dishes that mix food from the native tribes surrounding one of the country’s southernmost states with colonial Spanish-style cooking.

Police blotter

April 1: An unknown person committed forgery, stealing a victim's checks from the mail on Monte Bello Drive. The suspect wrote a check for $760 for a Best Buy gift card.

Donation box vandalized

Gilroy’s first box to have people donate food and give it to others for free was vandalized last week. Someone ripped off the left door. The box on Monterey Street near El Charrito Market was the result of three good Samaritans who want to help people in need.

George Flores November 13, 1951 – June 20, 2017

George Flores passed away on June 20, 2017 after a long battle with lymphatic cancer.

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