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Upper Penitencia Creek slashes a deep gorge in the Diablo Range near the northeast corner of San Jose. The lower portion of the gorge comprises Alum Rock Park with trails and picnic grounds close to the creek. Most of the lands you see rising high above Alum Rock Park are part of Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve, a 1,676-acre area that virtually encircles the cavernous Upper Penitencia Creek drainage.

Circus Vargas is circus. If you want to get the feel and flavor of what a real circus is all about, Circus Vargas is the ticket with a modern splash.

Red-winged blackbirds in an oak forest? Gray foxes lounging on a backyard deck? Duck families bobbing in your swimming pool? An influx of seemingly abandoned fawns near homes and businesses?

As summer winds down, fall leaves begin their descent from green to gold, and many people in Gilroy are taking the opportunity to go on one last trip. Some are enjoying Bay Area backroads treks for the weekend, and some, like my friend Lisa, journeyed to Maui with her two children for respite after a year in which they suffered the loss of husband and father.

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...