Golf tournament supports veterans
Operation Freedom Paws, a San Martin-based nonprofit serving veterans, will host its 10th annual golf tournament fundraiser Aug. 9 at Coyote Creek Golf Club in Morgan Hill. Format is a four-person shotgun scramble, and participation includes an award luncheon and silent auction.
Cost is $150...
County pushes new sales tax after federal cuts
Santa Clara County supervisors voted unanimously today to ask voters to approve new sales taxes that will place half the county in the double digit bracket. The higher taxes are needed to close a projected billion-dollar budget shortfall they say is the result of...
Around Town: Oakwood School’s NyanSat team honored by local nonprofit
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...
Santa Clara County surpasses one million Covid-19 tests
By Grace Hase
Santa Clara County health officials announced Monday morning that the county has conducted one million Covid-19 tests since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Our ability to test has increased tremendously since earlier in the year,” Santa Clara County Covid-19 Testing Officer Dr. Marty Fenstersheib...
Unprecedented $2 trillion relief bill at a glance
Almost all Americans will soon receive one-time payments from the federal government thanks to the nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill approved by Congress on Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press.
Details of the unrivaled package are expected to change as leaders continue negotiations...
Woman killed in Gilroy in 1993 identified as Oregon mother
After nearly 30 years, detectives from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office have identified a woman whose body was left on the side of a road in unincorporated Gilroy, according to authorities.
Oregon resident Patricia “Patsy” Skiple, who was about age 45 at the time...
New home turf
A contractor has been busy this month installing an entirely new artificial athletic turf surface at the Live Oak High School football field.
Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Trustees approved the new turf project at the March 5 board meeting, at a cost...
Retired police officer sentenced for fraud, other charges
A retired police officer who lives in Morgan Hill was sentenced March 29 to three years in jail for using his security business to commit millions of dollars in insurance fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and worker exploitation, according to authorities.
Robert Foster, 48, was...
Boy battling cancer is honored at Panthers game
Sawyer Keys, who was recently diagnosed with an extremely rare form of liver cancer, got an experience of a lifetime when he got to throw out a football prior to the Bay Area Panthers’ June 7 game against the Tulsa Oilers.
The 9-year-old Gilroy resident...
New restaurants push ahead despite pandemic restrictions
Jon Cuilla and his fellow co-owners planned to open Pour Decisions Taproom in Hollister in September 2019. John Holder, the owner of Brew City Burgers in Gilroy, was thinking along roughly the same timeline. However, both of the ventures got delayed, and then the...

















