The art of ‘Art’
Limelight Actors Theater’s latest offering lives up to the company’s tagline: “Theater with a twist.” The new production, “Art,” is chock full of comedy, intellect and drama. Characters Marc, Serge and Yvan—friends for years—hit a bump that puts their friendship to the test. The test comes after one of them purchases an all-white painting at an exorbitant price. With laughter and poignancy, they square off over the canvas. Lines are drawn and the bonds that tie each man to the others are stretched to the breaking point.
Mount Madonna School welcomes new teachers
Five teachers have joined the ranks at Mount Madonna School (MMS) this year. Brendan Dilloughery, Haley Campbell, Salvatore Talamo, Stewart Diaz-Mogollon, and Tiffany Wayne will be educating our students in the areas of middle and high school mathematics, science, outdoor adventure, English, Spanish, creative writing and history.
Honoring the lives lost Sept. 11
Bagpipes played at City Hall Thursday morning as the Gilroy Police Department Honor Guard and Gilroy Fire Department personnel raised the flag to half-mast in remembrance of the lives lost during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Locals take in African landscape, wildlife
Is Africa on your “bucket list?” It certainly wasn’t on my or my wife’s list, but our children and their lives have provided us the causes and inspiration to go beyond our comfort zone. Our son, Sean, spent his tour in the Peace Corps in Gambia in 2002, and we traveled there with our daughter and her fiance—something she described as “... an adventure, NOT a vacation.” Sean’s job with UNICEF prompted us to travel more than 95,000 miles by air from Gilroy to Kenya, Uganda and Cape Town for marriages, births and medical care in the past three-plus years.
City OKs use of hydrants to keep construction dust down
“Why does the city allow contractors at the various construction sites in Gilroy to use potable water from fire hydrants in dust mitigation? Since we are in a drought, it would make water conservation sense for them to use the treated non-potable water from the waste treatment plant instead.
Prep Roundup: Sept. 10
Olivia Tabron is making her case for a Monterey Bay League First Team honor—and it's only Christopher's seventh game of the year.
Tax plan draws opposition
On the heels of a recent vote by the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors to oppose the half-cent general-purpose sales tax measure, many business owners are expressing support of the decision.
Home declared public nuisance due to mounting trash
City Council declared a single-story home on Cypress Court a public nuisance Aug. 4 due to mounting trash around the property, and soon, it will be cleaned up at the property owner’s expense. The council voted unanimously to solicit bids to clean up the refuse at 1221 Cypress Court at the Sept. 8 meeting.
