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If you have never been to Guglielmo’s annual Harvest Festival, here is your chance to have a barrel of fun—Italian style. This is the 23rd year the Guglielmo family has hosted this wildly popular, adults-over-21-only festival, which will take place from 2 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 16. Dinner will be served between 5 and 6 p.m.

Kids splashed and played when the water was officially turned on at Gilroy Gardens’ Water Oasis during a dedication and ribbon-cutting July 17.

Celebrate summer fun and philanthropy at the July 30 “celebrity bartending” event supporting nonprofit organizations that serve South County Residents. The event will feature local public officials serving premium wines and artisan beer, with “generous tipping” encouraged and the proceeds benefiting Community Solutions and the St. Joseph’s Family Center. Serving beverages will be Morgan Hill Mayor Steve Tate, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Mike Wasserman, Gilroy Police Chief Denise Turner and Santa Clara Police Chief Mike Sellers, according to a press release from Community Solutions. The event takes place 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. July 30 at the Silicon Valley Capital Club, 50 W. San Fernando, San Jose. Admission is free, and parking will be validated in the garage below the club. Attendees are asked to RSVP by July 25 by calling (408) 846-4704 or by visiting bitly.com/summerfunphilanthropy. 

The Gilroy Police Department responded to a variety of crimes over the past week, from child endangerment to possession of a controlled substance and causing willful harm to a police animal. Arrests were recorded in the GPD blotter between July 9 and 16.

With summer in full swing, locals are invited to area downtowns to enjoy a variety of music and dancing with friends and neighbors. Mild evening temperatures make for perfect family outings, where adults can let loose following a hard day’s work and kids can dance, play and sing along to the sounds of local bands.

Following a recent court ruling that found the City of Los Angeles’ ban on living in a vehicle unconstitutional, local advocates for the homeless will ask Gilroy officials to stop punishing those who have no other place to sleep.

Gilroy Unified School District Measure P funds are hard at work this summer.

When a Chihuahua puppy mill was operating out of San Jose—churning out hundreds of the small breed of dogs per year for profit—the city’s former Animal Service Officer Lisa Jenkins was there to help close its doors.

Thirty-three DNA slides. A roll of duct tape. Textbooks outside a shed. Clothes mashed up in a bag found nearby, covered with dirt, floor mat fibers, urine, skin cells and “little glass beads,” the kind used to paint reflective safety markings on roadways. Then there’s the rope, which had some of her hair attached.