Hoops: Rocheleau leads MBL honors for Cougar boys
Wyatt Rocheleau was often the heart of Christopher High’s boys basketball team this season.
Teen’s death shrouded in mystery
Nobody knows why Allysa Marie Chavez-Perez was walking alone in the middle of the night along a busy highway east of Gilroy. Friends and teachers who knew the 17-year-old say she was on the verge of turning her life around and graduating from high school in June.
Soccer: Pair of CHS boys earn first-team all-league honors
Christopher High’s boys soccer team was rewarded for its strong season when coaches recently voted a pair of Cougars to the All-Monterey Bay League Pacific Division First Team.
Takeover plan for GUSD finances laid out
If all goes according to plan, Gilroy Unified School District could regain its financial independence by June.
Baseball: Cortez, Rams walk off with 4-3 win over CCSF
Jorden Cortez drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth inning to help Gavilan College’s baseball team walk off with a 4-3 home win over City College of San Francisco on Thursday.
Gavilan board to appoint interim president while Kinsella out on medical leave
The Gavilan College Board of Trustees Tuesday will consider appointing a short-term replacement for President Steve Kinsella, who will be taking about a one-month medical leave starting at the end of this month, according to Gavilan staff.
Teddy bears offer comfort to children
The Gilroy Exchange Club presented the Gilroy Police and Fire departments with a multitude of Teddy bears at the club’s luncheon March 6. The Exchange Club adopted the Teddy bear program, which helps officers and firefighters handle extreme situations involving children, and purchased a number of bears to donate. Police and firefighters will give the bears to children to comfort them during times of trauma. A police car and fire engine were displayed during the lunch and presentation of bears by Exchange Club members.
Competency questions stall murder case
More than a year after 14-year-old Tara Romero was mistakenly gunned down on city streets, the attorney for one defendant has filed a mental incompetency claim with the court, a move that continues to delay the proceedings and any closure for the families involved.
Building skills, one biscuit at a time
Fresh from a meeting where they were promoting a “Keep Our Campus Clean Campaign” at Gilroy High School, students from teacher Ramona Trevino’s special needs life skills class were hard at work sewing beanbags with leftover fabric from their “100 Blankets for the Homeless” project.
