What you need to know about Gavilan’s graduation
Gavilan College will award 1,122 degrees and certificates to graduating students at the annual commencement ceremony Friday at 6 p.m.
Are California Historical Markers Racist?
In an address at the United Nations, a South Valley Native American leader said a campaign to recognize California’s historic El Camino Real trail is an attempt to rob Native American’s of their heritage while honoring their oppressors.
Did you see the vultures circling?
A baby deer carcass brought a flock of vultures to the hills on the end of Mantelli Drive.Â
Local teens hear killer talk on distracted driving
Local high school students heard about the dangers of distracted driving from the parents of a California teen who died in a car crash ten years ago at an hour-long talk at GECA on Friday.
Traffic calm enough on upper Welburn, study says
In a move that may spur outrage no matter the outcome, the Gilroy City Council on Monday decided to reverse course on upper Welburn and remove contentious No Turn signs installed earlier this year.
City studies spending on sewers, crosswalks, fire truck
The Gilroy City Council on Monday, May 8 held a study session on Gilroy’s five-year Capital Improvement Plan. Nearly $23 million in projects—28 in all—were presented by city staff for review. Projects ranged from one-off items including demolishing city-owned property on Dowdy Street to ongoing work like city-wide sewer repair and rehabilitation.
With too few riders, Gilroy loses three bus routes
Gilroy bus riders will lose three routes in a major Valley Transportation Authority redesign that eliminates bus routes 14, 17 and 19 and replaces them with a longer loop route, 85.
Guest Column: What to do about Gilroy’s rising debt?
With the budget crisis facing Gilroy, one thing is evident, the status quo is not going to cut it anymore. Changes in how government delivers service and what those services costs are going to happen whether or not you like it or not. That is just a simple fact of economics; we are living in a time of limited resources with huge unfunded liabilities created by overly generous salaries and pension benefits made to public employees and mounting costs of repairing our aging infrastructure.
San Martin Residents Think Porta Potty Plan Stinks
On the corner of Sycamore Avenue and East San Martin Avenue in San Martin, an empty, grassy parcel of land has generated some controversy in the small, unincorporated locality, between Gilroy and Morgan Hill. Middleton Consulting out of Tacoma Washington is in the application process to construct a storage facility for portable toilets on the land and some San Martin residents nearby think the idea stinks.



















