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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.

The City of Gilroy is currently recruiting to fill four vacant seats on various boards and committees. According to the City, boards and commissions were established for the purpose of advising the City Council and providing ongoing input into policies and issues affecting the future of Gilroy.

Gilroy Police Department want people to be on the lookout for a silver, four-door Saturn Sedan, bearing California license plate 4YBD579, stolen during a carjacking July 8 on the 700 block of El Cerrito Way.

For the first time since its inception, CordeValle Golf Course will host a national championship.

The 12-year-old Hollister All Stars proved too much for Gilroy Tuesday. 

As volunteers walked down the driveway after a day of feeding wildlife and cleaning enclosures at the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center, they were mystified to hear an unusual whistling-chirping sound coming from underneath a parked vehicle. Getting low on the ground and peeking up under the car, they were astonished to see a large face staring right back at them. Looking and sounding like a super-sized ground squirrel (which in truth, it is), it turned out to be a yellow-bellied marmot, normally a denizen of the Sierra and Rocky mountains. We quickly learned why they're nick-named “whistle pigs” - they whistle when alarmed by predators, such as wolves, foxes, coyotes, badgers, bobcats, golden eagles, hawks, owls, weasels, humans and dogs (one of which had just chased this particular marmot under the car).

On June 28, Grinds, Vines and Automobilia Café celebrated the end of its first year in business with some loyal customers at a ribbon cutting ceremony with staff, ambassadors and board members of the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce.