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On this first anniversary of “Our Local World,” I want to take the opportunity to update some of the issues discussed in my columns of the past year.

One of Morgan Hill’s most popular public outdoor event facilities is about to get a new name, just in time to welcome one of the South Bay’s – and the nation’s – most familiar faces in rock ‘n’ roll, according to event organizers.

GILROY — Gilroy Gators swimmers Halee Chavez and Adrianna Queen have big dreams. They both see collegiate competition in their futures — and they are hoping the Gators will get them there.

Jennifer Lynn Kranz, or “JLK” as she is known to family and friends, took the world by storm with her princess dresses, big brown eyes, beautiful smile and dancing - but she was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma - a rare type of cancer that caused an inoperable tumor to grow in her brain stem.

While some people have a love affair with coffee, Morgan Hill resident Nick Langone and Gilroy High School alumna Brianna Holladay have a love story that blossomed over cups of coffee – thousands of them.

A proposed “Quality of Life” sales tax or bond measure originally floated by Mayor Don Gage as a mechanism to fund city capital improvement projects has taken a turn to include funding for additional public safety positions and upgrades to emergency communications equipment.

Twenty-one months after the arrest of the man who allegedly kidnapped and killed 15-year-old Sierra LaMar of north Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County’s top prosecutor brought the case to the Criminal Grand Jury which “finally” - in the words of the victim’s cousin - indicted the suspect for his alleged involvement in the crime Tuesday.

Detectives with the Gilroy Police Department arrested 33-year-old Jerome Moore, of Gilroy, on Feb. 12 and charged him with the murder of another Gilroy man in what began as a physical confrontation near Las Animas Park and became the city's first homicide of 2014.

One word perfectly summarizes the relationship between Gavilan College softball pitcher Paige Miguel and Rams coach Nikki Dequin: love.