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Three seats on the Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Trustees will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot. Voters will select their board representatives in Trustee Area 5 (central Morgan Hill), Trustee Area 6 (north Morgan Hill) and Trustee Area 7 (south Morgan...

MH residents make the dean’s list Morgan Hill residents Kaitlyn Pershall, Caden Leedy and Gabrielle Stieg were named to the spring 2024 dean’s list at Biola University. Pershall is majoring in Comm Sciences Disorders; Leedy is an Engineering Physics major; and Stieg is majoring in...

Running to represent District C on the Morgan Hill City Council are Soraida Iwanaga and Michael Orosco.  District C, which includes the northwest portion of the city limits of Morgan Hill, has been represented by Council member Rene Spring since he was first elected in...

Ballots and other information contained in the Santa Clara County vote-by-mail packet will be sent to more than 1.04 million local voters starting this week, according to election officials. The packets for the Nov. 5 general election are being mailed to every active registered...

I want to address the recent letter from Morgan Hill Unified School District Board President Adam Escoto regarding the district’s budget situation. While the claim of financial improvement is encouraging, it only tells part of the story. True transparency is still lacking. The return of...

The Nov. 5 general election ballot features two candidates for Morgan Hill Mayor: incumbent Mark Turner and District B City Council member Yvonne Martinez Beltran.  Turner is running for his second term as the city’s mayor. Martinez Beltran is serving her second term on the...

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a new state law that could lead to more farmworker housing development in Santa Clara County.  Assembly Bill 3035 was authored by Assemblymember Gail Pellerin and was inspired by Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas’ Agricultural Worker Housing Initiative, says...

Be an informed voter Morgan Hill voters can take us forward or backwards this November. Some want to go back to a time when respect for people in positions of power was granted exclusively to white men. There are people who literally cannot fathom respect...

I am writing in response to Tere Johnson’s perspective on the mayoral candidate forum of Sept. 12, and to give my perspective on that engaging event. While I appreciate Tere Johnson’s passion for Morgan Hill and their support for Mayor Turner, I’d like to...

Alvarado, Marmarou make president’s list Alvaro Alvarado and Denise Marmarou, both of Morgan Hill, were named to the summer 2024 dean’s list at Southern New Hampshire University. Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.7 and above for the term are...