Prep Football: All Star Game bittersweet for Gilroy-area players
Few get the chance to play high school football. Even fewer earn the honor of being named an All Star.
Accused YMCA molester faces life
The case against a 20-year-old Mt. Madonna YMCA employee accused of molesting a 6-year-old girl in the organization’s childcare facility located at Paradise Valley Elementary School turned darker Tuesday.
Crime briefs: Leisurely bike ride, beer run
Easy rider: It's unclear where she was going, but 45-year-old Marcy Elizabeth Meagher decided she needed some wheels to get there. Unfortunately, her plan to allegedly liberate a Schwinn bicycle valued at $169 by simply taking it past the registers at a store on Camino Arroyo at 2:57 p.m. July 12 without paying for it was punctured by eagle-eyed employees. After Gilroy Police Department officers arrived, it was discovered that Meagher had also helped herself to a plastic spray bottle worth 92 cents.
Sheriff’s log: Grand, petty, identity and mail theft
Drugs: Robert Flores, 40, 11:02 p.m. July 13 on Monterey Road at Leavesley Road in Gilroy, for possession of drug paraphernalia and resist, obstruct, delay arrest. The suspect was riding his bicycle in the wrong direction without any reflectors and then fought with deputies while in process of being detained.
Heat illness workshop for Chinese farmers
The Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, in conjunction with the University of California Cooperative Extension Small Farm Program and the Santa Clara County Farm Bureau, will hold a Heat Illness Prevention workshop for Chinese growers Friday in Morgan Hill, according to Farm Bureau Executive Director Jennifer Scheer.
G-fest goes intercollegiate with College Bowl
Hall of Fame college football announcer Joe Starkey called “The Play” at the infamous 1982 Big Game between Cal-Berkeley and Stanford.
