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I haven't been this annoyed by a state election ballot since

I keep noticing vans lately.

It's hard to believe, but this month marks the end of my fourth

Never heard this Gilroy-centric line, but when Doug the veteran Las Vegas cab driver who used to run a Vegas casino poker room “back in the day” heard we were from the Garlic Capital he immediately showed his hand. “You know what they called a hand with three 10s?” We didn’t have a clue what the old-time poker players called it. “They’d say, ‘I’ve got 30 miles of bad road between San Jose and Gilroy.’ ” Miss Jenny and I laughed out loud. The card quip referred to the 30-mile stretch of Monterey Highway. Before the new U.S. 101 it was known as “Blood Alley” – a nasty stretch of stoplights, accidents, backed-up traffic and fruit-peddling stands, the latter being its lone saving grace. It seems like so long ago, but the Sig Sanchez Freeway between Morgan Hill and San Jose opened less than 10 years ago in 2003.

Labor Day has come and gone signaling the start of the holiday

It's every homeowner's worst nightmare. Despite all precautions

What a blow the end of the Northern California Renaissance Faire

With the coming of fall also comes cold and flu season. Colder