Banuelos honored for Leadership Excellence
Longtime community volunteer and founding board member of the Morgan Hill Community Foundation, Mario Banuelos, has been named the 2023 Leadership Excellence Award recipient.
Banuelos will be honored at a Sept. 9 evening outdoor celebration and fundraiser at Guglielmo Winery, says a press release from...
Coe Park reopens
Henry W. Coe State Park fully reopened last week, after January’s series of heavy rain storms caused some damage to the park that crews spent several days cleaning up.
The park reopened on Feb. 3. The opening includes the park’s campground.
The recent winter storms knocked...
Three dead from suspected fentanyl overdoses near Gilroy
Three people were found dead of suspected overdoses of fentanyl in a residence near Gilroy on Monday and a fourth person was revived by responding Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies.
Deputies were called to the 10000 block of Garcia Lane at 3:05pm by Cal Fire...
Sobrato’s Kalvin Chak gets the point
Kalvin Chak has endured his share of adversity in his athletic career.
In his sophomore year at Sobrato High, he broke his right arm which sidelined him for the entire basketball season. Last year, in the midst of a breakout season on the varsity, Chak...
PHOTO: Morgan Hill winery spreads the love for Valentine’s Day
These giant metal letters welcoming people to Morgan Hill were recently installed at the corner of Watsonville and Uvas roads. The letters invite passersby to the nearby Sycamore Creek Vineyards, 12755 Uvas Road, which is home to the MOHI wine tasting room, where visitors...
Santa Clara County to close mass Covid-19 vaccination, testing sites
Santa Clara County will close its mass Covid-19 vaccination and testing sites by the end of the month as they are no longer essential to the county’s pandemic response, officials said Feb. 1.
While county health officials emphasized that the pandemic is not over and...
Oakwood Hawks aim to soar to historic success
A year ago, the Oakwood High boys basketball team saw its season end in a four-point loss to Robert Louis Stevenson in the Central Coast Section Division V playoff semifinals.
It was a rather painful ending as the Hawks had high hopes to reach their...
Religion: Building our future together—an interfaith perspective
Through my Interfaith work with the Interfaith CommUNITY of Santa Clara (ICSC) and the Interfaith Clergy Association (ICA) I have many opportunities to engage with many aspects of Interfaith life—its celebration of the diversity of culture, faith expressions, food, music, art and more.
Recently in...
Morgan Hill’s Nahono ‘Naho’ Yanagi bakes for the win on Food Network series
Nahono “Naho” Yanagi didn’t have much experience in the culinary arts merely a couple years ago, but the Morgan Hill 13-year-old is thriving as one of the few remaining contestants on a popular baking competition broadcast nationwide on the Food Network.
Nahono has been a...
Sobrato girls basketball clinches BVAL Santa Teresa East Division championship
In a showdown for first place in the Blossom Valley Athletic League Santa Teresa East Division, the Sobrato High girls basketball team got hit with a haymaker, falling behind 10-0 a little over two minutes into the game.
The Bulldogs showed they’ve got a fighter’s...

















