Schools

Gilroy’s local Future Farmers of America club will host its annual Flower Fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday at the Gilroy AG Farm, located at 9110 Kern Ave.

Gilroy High School will have its cake and eat it, too, when it celebrates its 100th birthday during a party next week with all the trappings.

New developments in the saga of Jack Daley - Gilroy High School's former athletic director who was “reassigned” in light of an April 7, 2011 incident when first-year GHS track coach Alvin Harrison was arrested for a DUI on Daley’s watch - have re-opened a can of worms that caused a painful rift between the district, teachers and the public nearly a year ago.

In lieu of an open seat on the Gavilan College Board of Trustees following the death of late trustee Mike Davenport, Gavilan is now soliciting nominations to fill the vacancy. 

Richard Rodriguez, principal at Luigi Aprea Elementary School since 2007, has been discharged from the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose following a serious car crash last week.

The first regular Board of Education meeting at Gavilan College since the death of Mike Davenport was weighted with emotion Tuesday night, when several trustees took a moment to remember their lost colleague before discussing how to fill his shoes.

Attention, food and music lovers: It's not too late to pencil in the Annual Spaghetti Feed and District Band Concert into your schedule. The event will begin at 5 p.m. Wednesday inside the gym and cafeteria at Christopher High School, located at 850 Day Rd. in Gilroy. 

A proposed change concerning the provisional board appointment of a new trustee has been made to the agenda for tonight's Board of Trustees meeting at Gavilan College, located at 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd. in Gilroy.

Standing on a chair Tuesday morning inside the gym at Gilroy High School, Athletic Director Julie Berggren shared her most embarrassing memory with 90 students, teachers, counselors and community volunteers.