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In response to the recent development in this case, MHUSD Superintendent Steve Betando has issued the following statement, which can be found posted on the district's website here.

At least six people used to live behind the Gilroy Dispatch on the 6300 block of Monterey Road, sleeping in cardboard structures reinforced with pieces of wood or in battered tents along the railroad tracks. That was until a Feb. 12 fire wiped out a portion of the camp.

Alex Felix , a 17-year-old senior, at AdvancePath Academy, is this week's "Student of the Week."

Adam Johnson, 27 of Morgan Hill, was expecting a baby boy and enjoying his job as a massage therapist when he was struck by a motorist in downtown Morgan Hill Wednesday, Feb. 19, according to those who knew him.

Thousands of dollars in scholarship money available to local students in Gilroy and Morgan Hill went unclaimed last year, and with the deadline to apply for many of these awards just around the corner, high school counselors are sounding the call for seniors to get on the ball.

The names we give our man-made structures often come from the surrounding landscape. But we have so urbanized our environment that those names have often lost their meaning. I confess that when someone says 'Stevens Creek,' I think of a boulevard and not a creek. It makes perfect sense, but I remain a bit skeptical that there is such a thing as a creek with that name. I decided to investigate.

The Gilroy Unified School District is looking to sell, exchange or lease two vacant properties in order to build a new elementary school in the next five years in a different – and better – location.

“I heard a pop,” Gianna Brown said as she hobbled off the field during Christopher’s Nov. 14 Central Coast Section field hockey playoff game at Monta Vista.