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Five months old. That’s the age of my nephew, who now faces the first major challenge of his short life. You see, Ryland was recently diagnosed with a rare immune deficiency disorder called Wiskott Aldrich syndrome (WAS).

The Central Coast Barnstormers semi-pro football team will open the season against the South Bay Stallions at 3 p.m. March 16 at Gilroy High.

I was a young kid back in the 1960s, growing up in Cupertino when it was surrounded by acres of fruit orchards and cutting ’cots (apricots) for a summer job was a rite of passage. I remember my older brothers racing home on their bikes - out of breath - after being shot at with salt pellets from a BB-gun-wielding farmer for stealing a handful of cherries. Our fertile Santa Clara Valley, filled with a profusion of spring blossoms, was dubbed the “Valley of Heart’s Delight.”

Got a hankering for a taste of British hospitality? Save your air fare to the U.K. and visit Victoria, British Columbia's capitol and the second largest city of that province. Named for Queen Victoria, it can be found on the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island. You don't get more British that this delightfully charming city and it all comes without the stiff upper lip or the stuffiness that is some time associated with our friends across the great pond.

SAN JOSE – Two power-play goals were enough to push the San Jose Sharks past the Nashville Predators 2-1 on Saturday night at sold-out HP Pavilion.

Honestly, I can’t imagine being on the school board. The way funding is set up – with the bulk of the money going to the state, then trickling down (yes, an exaggeration for demonstration purposes follows) from Assemblyman Luis Alejo’s office to the Gilroy Unified School District, is ridiculous. Every time the state can’t get its financial act together – and really that’s virtually always now – the district gets the screws put to it. Deferred payments, surprise holdbacks, delays and more attached strings than you could dream up, all handcuff the local people trying to do their educational jobs. It’s a nightmare. It’s no way to run a school district, it’s no way to run a state. But if we keep re-electing people to the Assembly and state Senate without virtually any scrutiny, then we get what we deserve because the local school district has precious little control over its own finances. The state giveth and the state taketh away and the GUSD trustees are simply a speck of dust riding the state’s whims. The saddest part is, there’s no revolution demanding wholesale reform on the horizon. It’s a tragic reality plaguing California.

In June 1769, a Spanish expedition led by Gaspar de Portola left San Diego in search of Monterey Bay. On the way north, the expedition passed by the bay, failing to recognize it.