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It's a breezy, sunny day and Colleen, a 2-year old dog with an endless love for fetch, playfully chases a tennis ball in the grass. The border collie mix is sweet and lovable, but she has yet to find a permanent home. Colleen is just one of the many animals available for adoption at the County of Santa Clara Animal Care and Control. This Saturday and Sunday, Colleen and all of the other dogs and cats at the shelter can be adopted at no cost, thanks to the shelter's participation in Maddie's Pet Adoption Days - America's largest free pet adoption event.

The special library tax that’s been in place for 20 years is expiring in 2015, and the county’s Joint Powers Authority is hoping that Gilroy residents will vote to continue the tax that supports maintaining library hours and inventory.

Gilroy Gardens had its largest-ever Gilroy Appreciation Day March 30 when more than 9,000 locals turned up to get the ball rolling on 2013’s summer of fun.

More than 100 people from Santa Clara to Santa Cruz flocked to Morgan Hill and Gilroy on May 18th to learn all about backyard chicken keeping from folks who know a thing or two about caring for clucking companions.

The 13th annual Wings of History Open House and Fly-by may be for the youth, but the hot air balloons that were being prepped early that morning were a piece of old-world technology that hasn't changed much since the first flight more than 240 years ago.

Nearly a quarter century after an enchanting, underwater princess named Ariel swam into young girl’s hearts with the release of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” a pair of Morgan Hill inventors – Sydney Murphy and Ksenia Medvedeva, both 11 and in the fifth grade – have created their very own usable mermaid tails with prosthetic fins.