Mom in grocery store theft arrested in Nevada
A Morgan Hill woman accused of using her 10-year-old daughter to steal groceries was arrested Friday after she triggered a nationwide alert by fleeing the state with her infant son, police said.
Coming soon: ‘Barn Again’
“Barn Again,” a new blog highlighting South County barns and farm buildings, will launch soon at gilroydispatch.com. Born out of a sense that locals are losing touch with agricultural heritage, the blog will document the beauty of older structures—even those that have been lost to the passing of time—as well as share stories of people in the community who own and preserve these treasures.
Homes for horses … and burros
A crowd gathered at San Martin's Taylor Made Farms last Saturday, where 14 wild mustangs and one burro found new forever homes through the Bureau of Land Management's National Wild Horse and Burro Adoption program.
‘Essential’ auto repair shops remain open
Many people choose to ignore the check engine lights on their vehicles, that finicky blinker or other maintenance issues, thinking that taking it to the shop for repairs would require them to be without their only mode of transportation for days on end.
However, with...
Six students forwarded to county with possible swine flu
Six students from at least two district schools have reported
BASEBALL: Cougars fall to first-place Monterey, 4-1
The Christopher High baseball team dropped a 4-1 nod to
School trustee heads push for eastside community pool
A Gilroy school board trustee is leading the charge for the construction of a new community pool on the east side of the city, which has had no public aquatic facilities since the closing of the old pool at South Valley Middle School nearly...
Casa de Fruta, an American success story
In the early years following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, California experienced a time of creativity, hard work and entrepreneurship. With the Gold Rush long past, people looked for other ways to succeed—and some succeeded spectacularly!




















