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Scores of student-athletes, parents and school staff spent their Saturday this past weekend spreading mulch, pulling weeds and sprucing up Live Oak High School’s campus on East Main Avenue.  About 75 people—most of them Live Oak students—came out to volunteer for the campuswide work day...

Residents in the area of Anderson Dam over the next few weeks may hear loud warning horns and explosive sounds as crews continue to excavate a tunnel under construction for the dam’s seismic retrofit project, according to Valley Water.  Water district staff say the impact...

Get ready for an evening of music as the Jazz @ Gavilan Concert returns to the Gavilan College Theater at 7pm Nov. 6.  This annual concert promises a night of classic jazz, and local talent that music lovers won’t want to miss, says a press...

Down at the Morgan Hill Grange, 23 pairs of hands gesture, wave

Any residents interested in helping to keep officials accountable in the expenditure of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Measure B sales tax funds can apply to be a member of the Measure B Citizens Oversight Committee. VTA is seeking eight candidates for this committee, and applications must be submitted by April 21. Each committee member will serve a four-year term.

San Jose-based photographer Allan Barnes, a former photojournalist who teaches at Ann Sobrato High School, is opening a show of his works at Cura Contemporary in downtown Morgan Hill.  The upcoming show, which opens Jan. 10, features Barnes’ use of historic photographic processes, cameras and...

The glow from three different computer screens lights Darcy

The Morgan Hill Police Department will use a $60,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to help make local roads safer.  The grant, which was announced by MHPD on Nov. 14, will support the department’s ongoing enforcement and education efforts “to help reduce...