Letters

To my council colleagues, city staff and the public, I am very excited to be a part of the many changes coming to Gilroy this year. We have many policies and practices that will continue to be updated to 2024 standards.  The entire community was...

What would you do if you had another $2,298? Take a tropical island vacation, buy new kitchen appliances, put the money in the bank or hand it over, as you do now, through higher prices every time you shop by way of the little...

On Jan. 17, 1984, my wife and I moved from our “small” house in South San Jose to Gilroy with our then-3-year-old son, with another on the way. Before getting married, my wife lived with her family in Saratoga and I grew up in San...

With 2024 in the rear-view mirror, on Feb. 12 at 9am the new Gilroy City Council will meet for our bi-annual strategic planning session. This is where the 2026-27 Legislative Work Plan and City Council goals will be established. This will be the foundation...

The proliferation of electronic billboards has continued unabated. The billboard industry continues to claim that they have no effect on traffic accidents. Sorry, there are plenty of studies showing the opposite. The University of Alabama conducted a study in 2017 of drivers in both Alabama...

Polls leading up to the recent election reported much of the public thinks the Republican Party handles the economy better. That’s not my opinion after reading "Letters from an American,” a daily newsletter from Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American History who has taught...

In early 2019, word was spread throughout Gilroy that Mayor Roland Velasco was asking for volunteers to form an ad hoc committee in order to celebrate Gilroy’s 150th birthday coming the following year. He felt that it was an important and monumental event which...

I read with great interest the Guest View article by Mr. Gary Walton, “It’s time to power up our local newspaper” (Gilroy Dispatch, March 25). I agree with such alarm and the fear of not having a local newspaper. Going through memory lane, I recall that...

We are now going in reverse (again) because of all the ignorant people who refuse to be vaccinated for Covid-19. I don’t understand it at all. If everyone had done it after day one we would not be going backwards. Wake up and do...