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I received a telephone call last week from the receptionist of a local business who had questions about a hummingbird nest outside her office window. The hummingbird had built a nest in a camellia tree and laid two eggs, which had hatched two days before. However, the mother hummer had not been seen since, and her entire office was worried about the baby birds.

GILROY — Nothing was going to stop the Avis Kelley Invitational from going on Saturday: Not the rain, not the condemned bleachers and not the semipro football game scheduled for that night.

VIRGINA BEACH, VA. — March was quite a month for Gilroy’s Paul Fox.

SALINAS — Seven Gilroy-area ballers will get their chance to shine once more this season as they take the court for the 7th Annual North-South High School All-Star Basketball Classic Friday at the Boys and Girls Club in Salinas.

It’s a drizzly morning in the South Valley. Despite the rain, hundreds of well-dressed teenagers and young adults trek from the Gilroy Gardens parking lot to the main gates, following signs that bear the words: “Job fair.”

ANNIVERSARY

The Gilroy Police Department has classified what was originally a suspicious death of a 74-year-old Gilroy woman at a residence on the 1400 block of Bristlecone Court Tuesday night as a homicide, police said Friday.

Southern Santa Clara Valley youth will soon have the chance to hop into Easter at Henry W. Coe State Park.

The Gilroy Police Department responded to a variety of crimes between March 20 through 27, including first-degree burglary, infliction of bodily injury on a spouse or cohabitant and possession of a controlled substance for sale. The arrests were recorded in the GPD blotter.

Drivers in Gilroy might want to think twice about texting or picking up a cell phone while on the road in the Garlic Capital.