Letter: Need more leaders like Mark Turner
Ever since we moved to Gilroy in 1978, I have observed many people who have selflessly given of their time and resources to improve life in the South County, starting with the first Garlic Festival that year.
As with many of his predecessors, both of...
Letter: Adapt to change
April 10, 2022 marks 30 years after a drunk driver hit me when I was 16 years old. I had a four-month-long coma, broken bones, paralysis and brain injuries. My gait and speech is not perfect, and I read lips. Years of therapy and...
Letter: Not ‘Mission Bells’
If there is only one thing that comes out of our Paseo project, let it be the understanding of the true name of the El Camino Real road markers.
Our new El Camino Real road marker has never been in a “Mission,” and to refer...
Letter: Consolidating Gilroy city commissions
At the Jan. 10 city council meeting, the council voted 5-2 to consolidate our 13 city commissions into nine commissions. For perspective with our nearest neighbors, Morgan Hill has four commissions and Hollister has six.
The decision to consolidate down to nine places the function...
Letter: Transforming Gilroy
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...
Letters: Development and politics
Not fake news
“Fake news” is the accusatory term used by Phill Laursen in his Oct. 5 Dispatch letter toward Dan Harney supporters. He goes on to say that his candidate, Carol Marques “proved" that Dan Harney had voted in favor of the 721-acre, 4,000-home...
Letter: Make Gourmet Alley bigger and better
It looks like some people want to get a grant to do some new work on the alleyway between Fifth and Sixth streets, somewhat like the work done with Gourmet Alley. I wonder where the grant will come from? Sounds and looks expensive!
Maybe it’s...
