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Coming off back-to-back league championships—including its third A-league title since joining the Blossom Valley Athletic League in the 2007 season—the Live Oak High baseball team is poised to once again contend for a Mount Hamilton Division championship and make a playoff run.  Coach Matt Brotherton...

The stars not only gathered in the clear night sky above Gilroy on April 8, but also under one roof downtown. The Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, back for the first time in-person since its 2019 iteration, celebrated its filmmakers, volunteers, sponsors and others that...

The City of Morgan Hill recently passed a Hotel Incentive Plan, to both encourage developers to build new hotels and existing owners to renovate theirs. Rather than an incentive plan, we need a rescue plan because guests have not returned to Morgan Hill after...

In a wide ranging law enforcement operation targeting perpetrators of sex crimes, a multi-agency Santa Clara County taskforce arrested six traffickers and recovered dozens of women who had been exploited by the suspects, District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s office announced Aug. 3.  The taskforce, working with...

Selecting students for the Morgan Hill Times’ annual senior spotlight honor is no enviable task. That’s why we make the principals, school counselors and staff sort it out. These students have navigated the labyrinth of high school hurdles, and we are inspired by their...

Living Above The Influence 15th anniversary The 15th annual Morgan Hill Living Above The Influence community event will take place 12pm-4:30pm Oct. 9 at the Morgan Hill Community & Cultural Center, located at 17000 Monterey Road.  The free youth and family outreach event will feature a...

Most elected government bodies, councils and boards in the Bay Area have resumed in-person meetings as vaccination rates have climbed and Covid-19 pandemic restrictions have eased. But the Morgan Hill City Council and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors are among the few remaining holdouts,...

Trey Bringuel was an eighth-grader when he first attended the Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Game, and to this day he remembers thinking one thing.  “I thought it would be cool if I could play in the game one day,” he said.  The Sobrato High senior is going...

We humans live in a place where there are cars everywhere. Most of us have such easy access to cars that we have multiple cars at our hand. Nowadays, having a car seems just as expensive as fueling the car.  Gas prices are expensive, and...

Longtime Morgan Hill Friday Night Music Series favorite SuperBad rocked the Downtown Amphitheater Aug. 11 for the latest installment of the local chamber of commerce’s summertime event. Hundreds of people crowded the lawn and the dance floor for the penultimate Friday night of the...