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Assemblyman Luis Alejo, author of a bill hitting the Assembly floor this week proposing to increase the state’s minimum wage, said the legislation would assist lower-income families in keeping up with escalating costs and that it would dissuade municipalities from passing local rates.

Gilroy Police Department Officer Noel Lemus, who was allegedly drunk when he barricaded himself in a bedroom and then resisted arrest at a home in Merced County on March 8, is scheduled for arraignment July 10 in the Merced County Courthouse.

The track and field season ended for all but one local athlete Friday at Gilroy High during the Central Coast Section track and field championship.

In August 2010, Gilroy Police Chief Denise Turner detailed a burgeoning issue for Gilroy when she presented her original status report on the city’s homeless population.

Crews from the Gilroy and Morgan Hill Fire Departments, South Santa Clara Fire District and Calfire responded to a roughly 40-acre vegetation fire at Frazier Lake Road and Bloomfield Avenue in Gilroy this afternoon. At around 3:30 p.m. firefighters were working on "cutting off the head," or containing the head of the fire, according to an employee from Treehaven station on Hecker Pass Road.

Welcomed by pristine conditions for Friday’s 23rd annual Rod’s Trod fundraiser event, Rod Kelley Elementary School students, faculty and family members walked, jogged, ran — and even crawled — their way around the quarter-mile circuit, helping to raise money for the northwest elementary school.

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Gilroy Gardens had its largest-ever Gilroy Appreciation Day March 30 when more than 9,000 locals turned up to get the ball rolling on 2013’s summer of fun.