Schools

Gilroy at top of obesity list, with highest percent of

With more than 60 years’ combined experience in education, Gilroy schoolteachers Susan Freiberg and Jeff Manker will retire with a litany of accomplishments. Here is some insight into their journeys: Freiberg, who started teaching at Brownell Fundamental in 1979, taught seventh and eighth grade in a...

Some say small increase isn't nearly enough

A $12 million grant program to create and expand school-based behavioral health wellness centers in Santa Clara County was approved Aug. 29 by the county Board of Supervisors.  Most of the grant money will be awarded to school districts to help establish new campus wellness...

Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill received a bomb threat

Saint Mary Church and School on First Street will say goodbye to two of its esteemed leaders who have served the community of Gilroy for decades: One is a principal, the other a priest.

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