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During this long 4th of July weekend, please keep your cats indoors-only, and keep your dogs indoors as much as possible, too.  If you take your dog out, please keep him on a leash.  Firecrackers (the “safe and sane” legal version, or the illegal varieties) make a lot of noise, and most dogs and cats are very stressed by the noise.  So please keep them indoors, so they don’t panic, run away and become lost.

Responding to whispered criticisms that this column writes too much about the Morgan Hill society scene, I ventured away from my usual working hours of cocktail time to an early Wednesday morning gathering of the "church ladies" at Sue's Coffee Roasting Company in Gilroy.

Now to most of you, this isn't earth-shattering news. In fact, I

Happy Father's Day to all you fellow Dads out there, and

One of my father's favorite books has always been Bartlett's

"Why does Gilroy only clean up for company? I have lived in Gilroy for 20+ years. I own a business in Gilroy, and it seems the only time any cleanup or weed cutting is done is when the Garlic Festival is happening. Maybe they should put aside money for diesel tractors so the vegetation can be cut more than once a year. Why is it only cleaned for visitors and not the residents whose taxes pay for these services and live here year-round, not just one weekend?"

Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks