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Jade Katen-Ynzunza, a 17-year-old senior at GHS, is this week's "Student of the Week."

GILROY — Christopher needed to win its regular season finale to secure its place in the playoffs. Gilroy wasn’t about to roll over and let that happen.

The Gilroy Police Department responded to a variety of crimes this week, including “loud and unreasonable noise,” trespassing and battery. Arrests were recorded in this week's GPD blotter from Feb. 10 through 18.

Vehicle strikes pedestrian in downtown MHA pedestrian suffered major injuries after he was struck by a vehicle in downtown Morgan Hill Wednesday night, police said. The accident was reported at 8:47 p.m. on the northbound side of Monterey Road, just south of Third Street. Officers arrived and found an unconscious 27-year-old man lying in the eastern lane of traffic, just in front of the speed hump near Third Street, according to police. The man had suffered major trauma to his head and body, and was transported to San Jose Regional Medical Center, police said. The police investigation, based on witness testimony, determined the pedestrian had been walking in the roadway, and for an unknown reason he laid down in the eastern lane of traffic just prior to being struck, police said. The driver of the vehicle that struck him was not injured and remained at the scene of the collision, police said. The driver did not appear to be intoxicated and was cooperative with authorities. Police: Auto burglar caught red-handedMorgan Hill police arrested a young suspect in a string of burglaries after an “alert citizen” reported suspicious activity in a west Morgan Hill neighborhood, according to a press release from MHPD. Early in the morning Wednesday, a witness reported seeing a suspect break into her vehicle on the 16000 block of Glen Canyon Road, police said. Officers arrived in the area and located a male juvenile sitting in the back of a vehicle on Spring Avenue, according to a press release. The juvenile was determined to be the primary suspect in five vehicle burglaries that occurred overnight, police said. The suspect’s name was not released due to his age. Anyone with more information about these incidents can contact Morgan Hill Police Department at (408) 779-2101 or the anonymous tip line at (408) 947-7867. 

With its third manager stepping down for the third year in a row, the Gilroy Farmers Market is taking a different approach and attempting to join the big leagues by becoming a member of the same California Farmers Market Association that runs the now highly successful year-round market in Morgan Hill – but it needs a little financial help to make the transition.

Christopher started and stayed strong to pick up the win in its final home game of the season.

Measure P – the $150 million school facilities bond Gilroyans approved in November 2008 – is mostly spent, and the district has a lot to show for it.

Things didn't end quite the way the Gavilan women's basketball team would've hoped.

Research is constantly trying to determine why thousands of people are inexplicably diagnosed with cancer every year. It really didn’t make sense why Morgan Hill resident Teresa Glover, 39 – a former Gilroy local and longtime fundraiser for cancer research and awareness – was told she had stage 3 non-Hodgkins lymphoma Dec. 18, 2013.

The Editorial Board has serious concerns about the direction the fledgling “Quality of Life” sales tax or bond proposal is headed. What began as Mayor Don Gage’s idea to see whether Gilroyans would support some sort of tax increase to pay for capital improvement projects has morphed into a tax hike that would support city operations, specifically police and fire protection.