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Gilroy
October 2, 2025

Homeward bound

When Toby Valdivia of Morgan Hill was growing up, pigeons were

“Retail therapy”: Emotional spending is bad for your bottom line, experts say

So, your boss yelled at you, you had a fight with your husband and your kids are being jerks. Time to go shopping, right?

Super foods!

Fruits, vegetables and fish can take on tough diseases and keep

Northern India spices up dinner

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A round of drinks and a royal story

As I start to tell you this, I feel a little mischievous. If this story ever gets widely spread, it might cause quite a commotion for England's royal family.

All about the Garlic Festival

Kudos to parking lot volunteers: "I wanted to congratulate you on the story on the Garlic Festival. It's a good reason why local papers should stay in existence. On your heroes though, I think you left someone out that is a super volunteer that you might want to go back and consider. It's the lady, I believe her name is Suki, who runs with 350 volunteers in the parking lot. Those kids work in the dust and it's a remarkable feat that they can even live through that. I'm telling you this in spite of the fact that is cost me $120 to park there because I blew a tire on a rock. But I'd like to see those people given credit along with the fire throwers and so forth in Gourmet Alley. Thank you."

Going to the gym … eventually

I've always thought the whole

A fitting conclusion to Garlic Festival

What better way to end the Gilroy Garlic Festival weekend than with an outdoor concert attended by many Garlic Festival volunteers? After the closing of the festival on Sunday, many supporters of the arts joined together to hear Denis Liddy from County Clare, Ireland, as he entertained guests with his traditional fiddle music and storytelling wit.

Do you eBay? One local does – and in a big way

In eBay vernacular, they're known as "power sellers," people who make their living off buying and selling items on the Internet behemoth. It's a unique phenomenon, allowing individual users to create home-based retail shops without the need for business licenses, brick-and-mortar stores or professional advertising.

Trinkets and treasures

Gilroy residents Al and Betty Gagliardi used to have a lush,

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