Sports Roundup: Sobrato beats Overfelt, Acorns win first
Live Oak HS Football (1-4 overall, 1-0 BVAL Mt. Hamilton Division)
Recent results: Won 23-6 at Lincoln
Upcoming games: 7:15pm Oct. 4 at Leigh
NOTES: Gage Jones rushed 17 times for 107 yards and a touchdown against the Lincoln Lions. Tanner Holeman scored from 39 yards on...
Local Scene: Morgan Hill students earn academic honors
Hicken named to dean’s list
Thomas Hicken, of Morgan Hill, earned a spot on the Utah Tech University dean’s list for the fall 2024 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list, students had to attain a semester GPA of 3.5 to 3.89 and complete at...
Letter: Speak up on High Speed Rail impacts
I have been a community member of the High Speed Rail working group (CWG) for the past almost 5 years. During that time, the project has gone from a potential overhead and separate rail line to a complete at-grade rail line on the existing...
19-year-old woman killed in collision in Morgan Hill
A 19-year-old woman driving a motorcycle died in a multiple-vehicle crash on Wednesday night on Highway 101 in Morgan Hill, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The CHP said that around 9:20pm June 12, the victim was driving a Yamaha R7 motorcycle on northbound Highway...
Religion: Our search for the happiness
Nowadays we have many worries—life questions, why things happen in the world.But what if the question is, “What can I do!?” Most of the time we worry about things we can't change or have no control over—but if we now start focusing on the...
Chappell qualifies as mayoral write-in candidate
Morgan Hill resident Steve Chappell—known among locals as an active administrator of online social media community pages—has qualified as a write-in candidate for mayor in the Nov. 3 election.
Sports roundup: Live Oak girls lacrosse goes 6-0 in league
Live Oak HS baseball (6-8 overall, 6-3 BVAL Santa Teresa East)
Recent results: Lost 8-2 vs. Lincoln; lost 9-1 at Lincoln; won 8-0 vs. Hill
Upcoming games: 4pm April 11 vs. Willow Glen
NOTES: In the victory against Hill, Brandon Behl, Thomas Guenet and Jonah Chattha each...
Gilroy High, South Valley Makos swimmer Zoey Zeller commits to Auburn
Division I college programs pursued Zoey Zeller in much the same manner she swims in a race: all-out.
The incoming Gilroy High senior recently made a verbal commitment to Auburn University, whose women’s team finished seventh out of 12 teams in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)...
Santa Clara County makes reopening progress
Santa Clara County’s gradual decrease in Covid-19 cases has allowed it to move forward in the state’s reopening criteria, officials announced Oct. 13.
The state reclassified the county into the Orange Tier, also known as Tier 3, as it met a number of testing and...
Massive snowpack good news for drought, but flood concerns grow
The latest statewide snowpack measurement from the California Department of Water Resources is another indication that the tremendously wet winter might have been too much of a good thing.
The agency’s readings from 130 snow sensors placed throughout the Sierra Nevada show the snowpack’s snow-water...

















