Celebrate SCV Wine Trail this weekend
In celebration of the newly labeled Santa Clara Valley Wine Trail, local wineries and business organizations invite oenophiles to tour local wineries and enjoy food live music for a weekend of celebration Aug. 23-24.
Prep Field Hockey: Mustangs have strength in numbers, experience
GILROY—This time last year, Gilroy field hockey coach Adam Gemar was scratching his head and wondering how he was going to make it through the season with only 13 girls. When the Central Coast Section mandatory dead period ended on Aug. 15, the Mustangs saw between 30 and 35 girls turn out for practice. What a difference a year can make.
Pro Baseball: Desert Fall Ball 2015 tryouts
Tryouts for a new independent professional baseball league called Desert Fall Ball 2015 will be held Aug. 30 at Seaside High School, 2200 Noche Buena, Seaside.
Four seats, six candidates for GUSD board
Four at-large Gilroy Unified School District Board of Trustee incumbents will appear on the November 2014 ballot, and two challengers joined the race—a Santa Clara County educator and the district’s retired assistant superintendent of human resources.
Riding the rails
Train enthusiasts climbed aboard the 20th annual Garden Railroad Tour Aug. 16, not only to get their fill of model railroads, but to help those in need as well.
Turning up the heat on URM property owners
City officials plan on turning up the heat on owners of buildings deemed unfit to survive a high magnitude earthquake, especially those who have not complied with Gilroy's unreinforced masonry ordinance. At the Aug. 18 City Council meeting, Mayor Don Gage advocated for increasing fines on delinquent property owners.
Mayan story of creation told in ‘Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven’
El Teatro Campesino’s crowd-pleasing pageant of the Mayan creation story, “Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven,” returns, showing at 3 p.m. Aug. 23-24, 30-31 and Sept. 1 at the San Juan Soccer Field, 100 Nyland Drive in San Juan Bautista. And for the first time, the presentation will be shown in Hollister at 3 p.m. Sept. 6-7 at Dunne Park.
Council scales back sign ban
City Council overturned a controversial part of Gilroy's sign ordinance Aug. 18 and decided that A-frame signs are permitted downtown. Though the required size of the A-frame signs has yet to be determined, they must be constructed of a wrought iron frame. Handheld signs, including those twirled by advertisers promoting new housing developments, are prohibited within city limits.
