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The Conservation Fund purchased the Richmond Ranch on Jan. 22, a 3,653-acre property in southern Santa Clara County.  The Fund is a national organization that provides money to bridge the acquisition of conservation lands by private and public sources. In this case, they are buying...

Morgan Hill Police, city officials and community volunteers gathered April 25 at the annual “Cops and Robbers Ball” to raise funds for public safety efforts, and to celebrate a local retired officer who has volunteered for the local department for the last eight years.The nonprofit Morgan Hill Community Law Enforcement Foundation sponsored the dinner, raffle and ceremony at the Community and Cultural Center.CLEF’s mission is to raise money to augment the city’s efforts to provide public safety services in Morgan Hill. Past efforts spearheaded by CLEF include the purchase and training of K9 dogs for MHPD, a license plate reader and other technology.At the Cops and Robbers Ball, CLEF honored Bruce Dudley with the 2015 Public Safety Award.Dudley is retired from the Sunnyvale Police Department, where he started serving in 1966. In Morgan Hill, he has volunteered as a crime scene and forensics investigator. In doing so, he has saved MHPD about $50,000 in evidence processing fees that would otherwise have been paid to the Santa Clara County Crime Lab.Dudley also volunteers at MHPD events taking pictures and shooting videos.To learn more about CLEF, visit morganhillclef.org.

There are many great plays in sports during a year or over many years. Some are exciting, some are superb athletically, and some are crucial to a game’s outcome. Last fall, Live Oak football linebacker Zach Rocha made one of the best plays ever...

The South Valley Ballet in association with Morgan HIll Dance

Dan Ehrler, the president and chief executive officer of the

I rise today to adjourn in the memory of Marty Cheek—a beautiful soul, the publisher of Morgan Hill and Gilroy Life, an arts and science advocate, a man who loved his community, and his community loved him.  Marty was born in Hollister and was a...

A huge crowd filled the grassy grounds of the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center Friday night for an evening of live music, dancing, food and family fun during the Morgan Hill Concert Series. Put on by the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce, the fifth...

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the Morgan Hill streets Oct. 18 to exercise their freedom of assembly as part of the worldwide "No Kings" movement, joining an estimated 5-7 million Americans in protesting President Donald Trump and his administration's policies.  First organized in June 2025,...

The City of Morgan Hill has begun hosting community meetings and circulating a survey among residents for the city’s first Transportation Master Plan. The first community meetings are scheduled for Nov. 8 and Nov. 16, with the latter of these conducted in Spanish, from 7-9pm...

What do retired teachers mean to the Hollister, Gilroy, San Martin and Morgan Hill communities? A lot. After years, sometimes decades in the classroom giving back to their students, retired teachers continue to give back to local communities through their pocketbooks and their passion...