Snow survey shows modest increase, warmer year
With the web-footed walk that happens in snowshoes, Sean de Guzman, manager of the state snow surveys and water supply forecasting unit in the Sierra Nevada, performed the season’s second snow survey Jan. 31.
It happened hours ahead of an atmospheric river and cold front...
Poppy Jasper Film Festival goes full bloom
Sometimes people ask Mattie Scariot if she is Poppy Jasper. She is not. She is, however, the director of the Poppy Jasper Film Festival.
For one week each spring, the Poppy Jasper Film Festival turns the greater South County area into something of a cineaste’s...
Aidan Keenan, Landon Stump look to lead Live Oak baseball past Mitty in CCS playoffs
Childhood friends and Division I-signees to Pac-12 schools, Aidan Keenan and Landon Stump aim to end their remarkable prep careers with a bang: by leading the Live Oak High baseball team to a win over West Catholic Athletic League power Mitty in the Central...
Sobrato notebook: Gabbani, Lepe lead cross country team; girls water polo set for BVALs
Michael Gabbani and Jake Lepe first met each other when they were 4 years old in preschool. Fourteen years later, the Sobrato High seniors have maintained a close bond even through their childhood and teenage years, when any one thing could’ve had them drift...
Sobrato High wrestling sets program record with four CCS title winners
Sobrato High wrestling standouts Aden and Nyla Valencia virtually do everything together when it comes to getting prepared during the long season.
From training sessions on the mat to getting in a grueling workout in the weight room, they’re in the same building no matter...
County reports two more COVID-19 deaths
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department announced March 20 that two more people have died of COVID-19, bringing the total deaths to eight in this county.
Santa Clara County rescinds vaccination order for workers in high risk settings
Workers at Santa Clara County health care and long-term care facilities, homeless shelters and prisons will no longer be required to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after the county's health officer on Sept. 12 rescinded a health order mandating that they do so.
Vaccination or frequent...
Religion: Response to a Vocal Minority
In the San Francisco Bay Area, we seem to be in a bubble of more open-minded thinking and inclusion. There are other places, regions and states that seem to be filled with fear of the outsider and suspicion of neighbors of different ethnicity, national...
One injured in July 17 shooting in Morgan Hill
Morgan Hill Police released this photo of a vehicle suspected of being involved in a July 17 shooting on Ciolino Avenue that left a male victim injured.
Coroner IDs man who died in Morgan Hill house fire
Nicholas Maverick Yray, 71, is the resident of Windmill Mobile Estates who died in a structure fire the night of May 27, according to the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office.

















