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Proposition: Step away from your busy personal life for a three-day out of town trip; drive five hours to a Yosemite mountain trailhead.

Last week we went on vacation. Yes, I know this isn’t earth-shattering news. But everywhere we went, people asked us where we were from. And when we answered “Gilroy,” we always got the same reaction:

On April 9, 1865, the American Civil War came to a virtual end with the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac in the quaint little town of Appomattox Court House in central Virginia. This pivotal capitulation, soon followed by other confederate submissions, brought to an end the most bloody, divisive, and potentially history changing time in our country’s history.

The 2020 Grant Cycle opens on Dec. 1 and closes on Jan. 31, 2020. All nonprofits with a 501(c)(3) status, GUSD schools, and Gilroy City programs are eligible to apply for a Gilroy Foundation grant that will serve the Gilroy community. Since 1982, the Gilroy Foundation...

Columnist James Fennell wonders why I'm a liberal. Here are a

In an effort to take local control before new state laws go into effect in January, the Gilroy City Council passed two “emergency” ordinances last week, one to stop commercial cannabis sales and the other to limit the size of “grandmother” units to 600...

Even the great martial artist Jet Li is suffering from China's

Five South Valley men, including two from Gilroy and two from San Martin, were charged with running a $235,948 insurance scam where they faked 18 car accidents and billed insurance companies for work that was never done. Brothers Angel Topete, 36, and Joshua Topete, 34,...

A remodeled vintage Chevrolet Corvette, two roll-away tool boxes and aviation equipment were stolen from two separate hangars at the South County Airport in San Martin.

Trekking on my mountain bike along the Coyote Creek this week, I