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It’s not every day you ride around with a famed California wine historian and best-selling author while he runs errands. But I had the chance to sit in Charles Sullivan’s maroon Lexus (with a license plate that reads: ZINFDL) and chat with him about local wine history as we drove around Santa Clara.

The executive director at Community Media Access Partnership has departed her role for a similar job in the Boston area.

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The Gilroy Police Department made arrests for a wide variety of crimes this past week, including grand theft, evading police in a vehicle, cruelty to a child, lewd or lascivious acts on a child and burglary. All arrests were recorded in the GPD blotter between Nov. 9 and 16. All suspects remain innocent until proven guilty, and an appearance in the arrest log does not signify guilt for the listed crime/s.

Seedings for the 2014 Central Coast Section football playoffs were announced Sunday and the new Monterey Bay League Pacific Division champion Christopher Cougars earned a first round home game. 

EUREKA—Gavilan was 40 seconds away from ending the season with a ‘W’ in Eureka, but the College of the Redwoods squad had other plans. With just three seconds left, the Corsairs’ John Tanner Westby kicked a 40-yard field goal to tie the game at 35-all and send it into overtime.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has charged a South County horse owner with felony cruelty to animals, according to a Nov. 14 press release. County Animal Control this week seized the herd, which remained after a neighbor and a rescue center tried to help by buying some of the most neglected animals.

A 31-year-old Gilroy man was arrested for manufacturing a controlled substance after the fire department responded to a call about a strong gas odor in the area of Fourth and Rosanna streets. Rene Vargas was making a concentrated form of cannabis made with pressurized butane in the home he shared with his father, wife and 11-month-old son on the 7600 block of Rosanna Street, a Gilroy Police Department spokesman said.

GAVILAN RAMS

GILROY—You can’t pull Daniel Mooney away from basketball for even a second.