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The Morgan Hill Community Foundation, local nonprofit charity that enriches the greater Morgan Hill area through its annual grant awards and ongoing projects affecting many members of our community, is recruiting two additional members to serve on its Board of Directors for a two year term. All interested community members are encouraged to apply, particularly those with interests within the MHCF’s six focus areas: (1) health and human services; (2) education and lifelong learning; (3) environment and agriculture; (4) science and technology; (5) arts and culture; and (6) recreation. For information about joining the Board of Directors, please contact Dave Reisenauer, president of the Morgan Hill Community Foundation at [email protected]. The MHCF recently awarded $5,000 to six local non-profit groups and is scheduled to grant an additional $10,000 award in November 2012, a grant designed to celebrate the MHCF’s 10 year anniversary of philanthropy in Morgan Hill.

Longtime Morgan Hill Friday Night Music Series favorite SuperBad rocked the Downtown Amphitheater Aug. 11 for the latest installment of the local chamber of commerce’s summertime event. Hundreds of people crowded the lawn and the dance floor for the penultimate Friday night of the...

Seventeen members of the Rotary Club of Morgan Hill, along with nine volunteers from Rebuilding Together, participated in the spring Rebuilding Together workday April 22 in Morgan Hill.

I’m writing to share with the community why I believe those of us in Morgan Hill Unified School District Trustee Area 7 should vote for Tom Pocus.  Since earlier this year, many of us parents have been deeply involved with the school board and district,...

All Santa Clara County Library District libraries, including the Morgan Hill library, will be closed for building and technical upgrades on Wednesday, Aug. 3 and Thursday, Aug. 4, according to library officials.

For the 28th consecutive year, the Chamber of Commerce Taste of Morgan Hill street festival entertained visitors and residents with live music, plenty of food, cold beverages and scores of vendors offering a variety of handmade crafts and trendy merchandise.Chamber Executive Director John Horner said this year’s Taste of Morgan Hill, which took place Sept. 23 and 24 in the city’s downtown, was a “terrific success.”“We enjoyed beautiful weather, which was neither too hot nor too cold,” Horner said. “Vendor booth rental spaces were completely sold out with 172 participating vendors. The Kids Zone ride area was bigger and more popular than ever.”On Saturday, the festival’s annual car show—always a hit—was also sold out with the owners of 185 classic cars delighted to show off their rides, which ranged from old Model A’s to “modern prototype electric vehicles and everything in between,” Horner said.While the event is an annual fundraiser for the chamber, the organization doesn’t publicize specific dollar figures, Horner explained. But he noted that beer, wine and soda sales at the 28th annual Taste of Morgan Hill were “higher than they have been over the previous five years.”Furthermore, the Saturday Night Street Dance—a relatively new attraction at the annual festival—“has become a lynchpin of the weekend, and we plan to do it for many years to come,” Horner said. Pacific Soul played this year’s street dance.The Taste also featured numerous live bands throughout the weekend. Downtown streets were closed to vehicle traffic as vendors and patrons took over on foot.

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The vehicle yard at Recreation Vehicle Services, located at 10900 Monterey Road, is filled with recreational vehicles and motorhomes of all kinds in need of varying repairs.

A private groundbreaking ceremony for the $50-million American