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With the warmer days, a walk at Christmas Hill Park is always welcome and standing there near where the Gilroy dog park should be, refusing to give in to being imprisoned and ignored, is the grand old Red Barn. It’s an iconic nod to the past, home to roosting pigeons, stray cats, and a symbol for government inaction. Wouldn’t it be cool if the city, the historical society and the Garlic Festival worked together on a plan to restore it? Summer movies in the barn for kids, home to the Gigantic Garlic Mercantile during the fest, composting demonstrations ... I don’t know what could go on there – children’s plays,  a revived barn dance? What I do know is that putting a chain link fence around the place and doing nothing for years, makes a whole lot of no sense.

John Ellis fired a 7-under-par 65 as the top scorer in Monday’s U.S. Open local qualifier at Serrano Country Club in El Dorado Hills.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – I'll Have Another chased down Bodemeister in the stretch to capture the 138th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

Spring is here. If you’re a gardener, you know it will soon be time for you to put in your flowers or vegetables. But even if you don’t have a green thumb, you can still take advantage of the season by “planting the seeds” for the growth of another valuable  piece of property - your investment portfolio.

Because nothing engages a fan base quite like a crisis, Giants fans determined to sweat the temporary loss of Pablo Sandoval should know their anxiety is appreciated by the franchise.

SAN DIEGO – Junior Seau died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, the San Diego County medical examiner concluded Thursday after a forensic autopsy including a "full examination of (the) decedent's body and organs."