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Gilroy Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center celebrated its grand opening Oct. 10.

Gilroy Dispatch: Briefly describe your background and experience. Why are you qualified for this position?

Gilroy Dispatch: Briefly describe your background and experience. Why are you qualified for this position?

Gilroy Dispatch: Briefly describe your background and experience. Why are you qualified for this position?

Have you ever driven down a street you use all the time and notice something you’ve never seen before? Has that charming little house down the road always been there? It’s funny how we can go through life with blinders on. Funnier still is how we can live in an area for years and know next to nothing about local history. There is more to Gilroy than just garlic.

GILROY—Sean Kaufman is always running. Whether it’s over hills during cross country, around the track as part of Gilroy’s relay teams or toward the ball in football and soccer, he’s always in motion.

A barn east of Gilroy containing hundreds of wooden pallets caught fire early Wednesday morning, causing a section of road to be closed as firefighters batted back the flames. The fire, at a ranch on the 2700 block of Ferguson Road, was reported at approximately 4:30 a.m.

Emily Boykin, 15 years old, sophomore at Gilroy High School

Erin Mank is shining at home. 

Authorities added another victim to the criminal complaint against Paradise Valley Elementary School teacher John Loyd, 52 of Hollister, and a judge denied the suspected child molester’s request to reduce bail at an Oct. 20 hearing. Loyd remains in custody at Santa Clara County Jail with no bail, on charges that he sexually assaulted three female victims. At least one of the children was a student at Paradise Valley who was assaulted by Loyd in his fifth-grade classroom, according to authorities.Investigators have declined to release any further information about the other two victims.Loyd pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges at the Oct. 20 hearing at South County Courthouse, where Superior Court Judge Alfonso Fernandez heard and denied his request to reduce bail. With the latest charge added to the list of allegations against Loyd Oct. 20, he now faces five counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Each charge carries a penalty of 15 years to life in prison. Loyd was arrested by Morgan Hill police Oct. 2, after a student at Paradise Valley reported to another staff member that the teacher made inappropriate contact with her. The ongoing investigation has found that Loyd made similar contact with two other students, according to authorities. Loyd has been a teacher at MHUSD since 2000. He has taught at Paradise Valley Elementary School since 2008.The Morgan Hill Unified School District placed Loyd on administrative leave immediately after his arrest, according to MHUSD staff. As of his first court appearance Oct. 7, that leave has been unpaid. Loyd’s next hearing is scheduled for Nov. 13 to set a preliminary hearing date.