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GILROY—The city council will decide Monday whether to recommend annexing 721 acres of farmland north of the city to build a massive planned development with two schools, a major shopping center and several parks.

Should Gilroy grow out and grow bigger, or concentrate on creating a compact, efficient and thoughtfully planned community surrounded by green hills and agricultural lands? The answer may be a bit of both.

Gilroy didn’t have a bad first half of basketball, it’s just that Sobrato’s second quarter was that much better.

CHRISTINA Bless, 16, never seems to be content with being a normal teenager. She doesn’t spend time texting on a smartphone or dawdling her time away on the more popular social media. When she is online it’s most likely to study, research a new story or sell one of her imaginative creations.

A Gilroy woman accused of defrauding 17 people of more than half a million dollars may serve six years in state prison after pleading no contest to 22 counts of grand theft, securities fraud, embezzlement and burglary in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Nov. 19.

The holiday season is no holiday for Ed Battaglia and his family—it’s the time they work the hardest.

A county report says Gilroy police take the longest to respond to emergencies of any city in the area—but police and city officials say it’s likely that the report is wrong, even though the department is working to improve its slow response times.

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The Gilroy Foundation has many reasons to be proud, but watching Don Christopher take the stage of the Mission City Ballroom at the Santa Clara Convention Center last Friday was a special moment in the Foundation’s 35-year history.