Police officer, volunteer rescue owlet from water slide
Area residents are not the only species flocking to the Morgan Hill Aquatics Center to seek refuge from the summer heat.
Sweet moves and summer grooves
The city let loose during the most recent Friday Night Music Series in Morgan Hill, where several hundred people showed up to the series – now in its second week – to listen and dance to live music, drink regional wines and taste local cuisine.
It’s gonna be a hot one
Temperatures in Santa Clara Valley are expected to heat up to record-breaking levels in some areas, and the City of Morgan Hill is offering its largest public facilities as “cooling centers” for residents who would suffer from the outdoor heat.
Community support helps keep youth center open
The City of Morgan Hill, community organizations and local residents have joined the El Toro Youth Center’s parent organization - Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County - in raising money for the center after a financial scare earlier this year threatened to shut the facility down, according to authorities. The El Toro Youth Center will remain open at least for the rest of this year, thanks to the “community support,” Catholic Charities CEO Greg Kepferle said. Now the youth center’s supporters will continue working on a “sustainability” plan to find permanent sources of funding to keep the facility open forever.
Members of South County’s LGBT community ‘elated’
The Supreme Court made history Wednesday with two victories for marriage equality, in California and nationwide.
Thursday Street Dance series starts this week
The Morgan Hill Downtown Association's annual Thursday Street Dance summer concert series starts this week on Third Street, with country music artist Kelly McDonald taking the stage Thursday night. The music starts at 7 p.m. near the intersection of Monterey Road and Third Street in downtown Morgan Hill. The Thursday Street Dance will continue until Sept. 26, with bands such as JJ Hawg, Wild West Show, Rock Hard, Cold Storage and others scheduled to grace the stage in the coming weeks. The concert series will take place at a new location this year - in the parking lot of the former Simple Beverages building at the intersection of Monterey Road and Third Street. Attendees and downtown visitors will not be able to park in the lot on Thursday nights for the remainder of the summer. The annual live entertainment series is sponsored by the Morgan Hill Downtown Association and its members. For more information and a full schedule of this summer's Thursday Street Dance lineup, visit www.morganhilldowntown.org.
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Firefighters raise nearly $35,000 for MDA in annual Fill the Boot
Morgan Hill's Fill the Boot campaign raised almost $35,000 from June 21 to 23, doubling last year's fundraising efforts.
Annual Fill the Boot campaign on now through the weekend
Members of Cal Fire and the Morgan Hill fire departments are out in force to help raise money for the Fill the Boot campaign to benefit muscular dystrophy research to combat the disease in children.
Host families needed for Mizuho Student Exchange program
Mizuho Student Exchange is in need of host families for this year’s student exchange with Morgan Hill’s Japanese Sister City: Mizuho-machi in Tokyo, Japan.















