Semi-Pro Football: Barnstormers’ defense keys fourth straight win
The Central Coast Barnstormers semi-pro football team won its fourth straight game with a 35-6 victory over the visiting Capital City Fury on Saturday at Gilroy High.
MMA: Eggink defeats Gilroy’s Van Buren by unanimous decision at XFC 23
Gilroy women’s mixed martial artist Brianna Van Buren lost her strawweight (115-pound) feature bout by unanimous decision against Stephanie Eggink as part of the Xtreme Fighting Championships card XFC 23: Louisville Slugfest on Friday night at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Ky.
Outstanding third suspect arrested in gang slaying case
Juan Guerra, 21, one of three suspects allegedly involved the April 3 double shooting that killed Gilroyan Jesse Emmanuel Silos, 30, and left another 37-year-old victim seriously injured, was arrested at 6:30 p.m. Friday in San Jose on homicide and attempted homicide charges according to a press release sent today from the Gilroy Police Department.Â
3 letters: Schools better start taking cyberbullying seriously; Thanks for Dispatch support on garden sale; Legislative fire tax fiasco gets worse
School officials better start taking issues like cyberbullying seriously
Scrapbook April 19, 2013
HONORS: Nicholas A. Olivares: Army Pvt. Nicholas A. Olivares has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
Trekking training
Yosemite’s Cloud’s Rest, at 9,926 feet, beckons in July for 50 or so hiking enthusiasts who gathered for an 8.5 mile training excursion recently at the Rancho Cañada del Oro Open Space Preserve.
Blessed and exhausted
Claudia Valencia is in the trenches of that dazed period all new mothers face. The round-the-clock nursing. The overwhelming feelings of love for a helpless, constantly pooping creature. The emotional spikes and drops thanks to postpartum hormones.
