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These are difficult times. The world has seen worse, but there is no denying the fear, the sadness and the general feeling of desperation that has become so prevalent these days.  In a recent article in The Atlantic, David Brooks writes that the “percentage of...

Reliable Robotics conducts tests of innovative technology

I am writing in response to your 2023 article, “A rare breed in Morgan Hill,” which featured a Barbado da Terceira named Mac and included commentary from Dana Simel, President of the Barbado da Terceira Club USA.  While the article is engaging and clearly written...

Morgan Hill Unified School District is getting ready to welcome back students for in-person learning at all 14 schools for the fall semester starting Aug. 12. All of the district’s TK-12 students will be able to return to the classroom full-time, for the first time...

Morgan Hill residents and visitors say the return of indoor dining to local restaurants makes them feel almost like life is returning back to “normal,” one year after the Bay Area declared its first wide-ranging shelter-in-place order. Ron and Brian Hedberg, of Salinas, were eating...

Suspects tied to two gang-related Morgan Hill murders in 2020 and 2021 are scheduled for upcoming hearings in Santa Clara County Superior Court, according to authorities.  The deaths of Michael Duran, 18, and Humberto Cossio, 33, do not appear to be directly related, but court...

The Indoor Football League’s Bay Area Panthers played the season’s first home game March 30 against the San Antonio Gunslingers at SAP Center in San Jose. The Panthers lost by a score of 28-21.  Pictured is Panthers quarterback Josh Jones carrying the ball against the...

Investigators from the California Fair Political Practices Commission are asking for the public’s help in determining who posted illicit anti-Measure I campaign signs in Morgan Hill before the March 3 election.

Authorities are starting to crack down on people illegally hanging flags, signs, banners and other items—regardless of the content of their messaging—on highway overpasses in South Valley, according to a local California Highway Patrol captain. The heightened enforcement plan is the CHP’s response to a...

Controlled detonation Police and sheriff’s deputies detonated a relic military ordnance east of Holiday Lake Estates April 14, authorities said. A resident of the area called police to report he had a cannonball that a friend had given him several years ago. The recipient of...