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Gavilan College students can now get instant access to grades, schedules, rosters, and other campus resources through a new app available on both iPhone and Android platforms.

The iconic yet long-neglected fixture lodged within Christmas Hill Park, one that has been boarded-up and fenced off since the 1990s, will stand for another year after City Council voted unanimously to call off the bulldozers.

The City of Gilroy is making strides with its 15-step plan to address homelessness in the community, including seeking grant funding to house some of the long-term homeless and purchasing locks to install on the doors to restrooms in public parks, according to Gilroy Police Chief Denise Turner.

For the last decade, the Gilroy Unified School District has been installing fences to keep children safe from intruders – a project that was ramped up after the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in December 2012. But the fact GUSD is keeping many of its playgrounds closed after hours has recently caught the attention of City Council. Members are worried that local children are losing public spaces where they can play and be active.

The Gilroy Police Department responded to the scene of an accident at the intersection of Monterey and 10th streets after a box truck and a four-door car collided at approximately 9:20 a.m. Thursday, according to GPD Officer Andrew Viale.

After 70 years of serving low-income, high risk youth in San Jose, the Boys & Girls Club of Silicon Valley is coming to South County and bringing with it an arsenal of beneficial programs.

Saint Louise Regional Hospital’s parent organization - the Daughters of Charity Health System - wants to turn the 24.5-acre DePaul Medical and Urgent Care Center campus into a senior housing development and build a new medical complex elsewhere in Morgan Hill that proponents say will expand health services in the area.

Classified staff including bus drivers and yard duties for the Gilroy Unified School District aren’t happy that management employees have already inked a unanimously approved, across-the-board 4.5 percent salary increase, while the some of the “lowest-paid” GUSD employees are still working for the same wages they made six years ago.

Contractors for electronics retail magnate John Fry can finally start pouring foundation concrete for the 170,000-square-foot American Institute of Mathematics headquarters, which will eventually serve, too, as the clubhouse for the PGA’s annual Frys.com Open tournament.

GILROY — When Emma Leach was in sixth grade, she told her parents that there was one thing she needed for Christmas — a field hockey stick. It wasn’t top of the line or anything fancy, but that stick sparked a dream of playing Division I hockey.