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Perhaps it’s the family name - Mercado - that made Vito Mercado destined for the career he began during his senior year at Gilroy High School.

Carpets will glide across the stage and lovers will sing as the city of Gilroy presents a whole new world of magic with this year’s play: “Aladdin Jr.”

You can pick up a package of Silva Sausage, crafted and packaged here in Gilroy, on nearly every continent. Across the country, major retailers - including Costco, Walmart, Krogers, Whole Foods and others - stock their traditional Portuguese and Italian linguiça, Spanish and Mexican chorizo, hot dogs, hot links and other seasoned sausages.

While serving as a missionary overseas, Pam Tebow experienced pregnancy complications and was told to abort.

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.”

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