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More than 50 California and out-of-state colleges are lined up for the 9th annual South County Cal-SOAP College Fair from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Student Center on the Gilroy High School campus.

If the dog is man's best friend, surely the horse is man's most generous friend.

Gavilan College’s High on Health Faire will celebrate its 20th anniversary from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Gavilan College Student Center located at 5055 Santa Teresa Boulevard in Gilroy.

Blues musician Shane Dwight highlights a list of local acts that are set to rock the Sept. 28-29 weekend in downtown Morgan Hill for the 24th annual Taste of Morgan Hill.

Update: The Doggie Dip Day event will not be in any pool that is currently used for swimming, according to an email from the Morgan Hill Aquatics Center. The event will take place at the Aquatic Center's Summer Recreation Pool, which is currently closed and will not reopen until the 2014 summer season.

When floating mobile homes, washed out roadways and destroyed houses were tallied Monday, Weld County commissioners in Colorado estimated at least $230 million in damages to properties and infrastructure countywide.

Teachers Gina Chekouras, of Gilroy’s Glen View Elementary School, and Lourdes Robledo, of Morgan Hill’s San Martin Gwinn Elementary, will be honored as two of the county’s finest educators as recipients of the 2013 Teachers of the Year award.