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The homes are decorated for Halloween and judging has begun, and the City of Morgan Hill will soon post the results of its annual Morgan Hill Haunt competition.  Over the past several weeks, residents and homeowners have been getting creative in their efforts to decorate...

Oakwood School’s small student-built satellite, NyanSat that is preparing to be  launched to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, was honored recently by the Edward Boss Prado Foundation. The Morgan Hill-based nonprofit presented a Certificate of Dedication to the Oakwood...

Live Oak’s Luke Richey was league MVP in lacrosse and league Defensive Player of the Year in football. With opportunities beckoning in both, Richey chose to continue in football and selected San Jose State over other interested colleges. The Spartans are coming off a...

Starting on Jan. 1, employers will be required to inform employees of potential exposure to Covid-19 within a day of the exposure occurring under Assembly Bill 685.

For the second consecutive year, El Toro Tours has donated $5,000 to support Morgan Hill Parks and Recreation, helping sponsor the city’s annual Morgan Hill Haunt and Holiday Lights Morgan Hill home decorating events. City officials said in a press release that they plan to...

Don Gage—a South County icon of politics and a beloved member of the Gilroy community—died on March 25 at age 79.  Gage’s political career started in 1981 and spanned a range of local offices and specialties. He served as a Gilroy City Council member from...

A newly funded housing complex in Morgan Hill will include units specially dedicated for farmworkers, the city announced on July 11.  The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors originally signed off on a $13.2 million proposal for the site on June 28.  The Magnolias will be...

Lisa Pesta, a Morgan Hill resident for more than 35 years and President and CEO of Meriwest Credit Union, embodies the South Bay’s spirit of growth and empowerment.  As a Bay Area native who has raised her family in the region’s rolling hills and bustling...

By Jill Cowan, The New York Times Almost exactly a year ago, on March 7, 2020, officials in the Elk Grove Unified School District—Northern California’s largest—announced that schools would close for a week in response to concerns that the novel, unknown coronavirus could spread like...

Student workers at Gavilan College are organizing what they say would be the first student workers union at a community college in California, aiming to address wage disparities and improve working conditions at their Gilroy and Hollister campuses, and inspire other students to follow...