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February 3, 2026

Editorial: Can We Trust Perry Woodward?

The bizarre events of December 2015 will be long etched in Gilroy’s political history. Mayor Don Gage stunned the city by resigning without warning a year before his term ended, effectively handing the reins to his political ally, Perry Woodward. The handoff allowed Woodward to run as an incumbent—but not before the duo pushed through approval of a massive farmland annexation that would have, along with other planned developments, made Gilroy one of the Bay Area’s biggest cities—a sprawling urban mass of 120,000 residents, more than double the city’s population today.

Why sprinklers in every home?

It's hard to quibble with proponents of expanding sprinkler

Editorial: Make vaccination a priority in Gilroy

Nobody likes a line-jumper, the snide person who forces their way through the crowd with constant utterances of “excuse me” while claiming their friend saved a spot for them at the very front. Get caught, and it’s grounds for ejection wherever they may be. But...

Pet store puppy purchase – buyer beware

Buying a puppy from a pet store is can be a tragically wrong

Police, fire employee benefits bankrupt Vallejo – Gilroy next?

Unless you're totally oblivious to regional news, you've by now

Let the voters decide whether or not to repeal binding arbitration

Opportunity knocks, but will the City Council listen and give

$20 million for GPD Taj Mahal?

City Council needs to take a second, hard look at the plans and

Middle school ships are sinking – and the plan is?

Opening a fourth middle school at the site of the defunct El

Next: resolve the classroom problem

Gilroy School Board members spoke wisely, and with a unanimous

The influence of the crowd

There are a lot of very sweet, kind and hard-working people who live at Eagle Ridge. Of that, I have no doubt.

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