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Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley, a nonprofit youth services group providing after-school voluntary activities for young people through clubhouses across the valley, announced this week it has appointed Morgan Hill Assistant City Manager Edith Ramirez to its board of directors.  “We are absolutely...

Mike Kiefer has been the Live Oak High girls basketball coach for 17 years, but he doesn’t remember ever having a season in which he’s had only one senior on the team. Such is the case this season and as such Kiefer acknowledges it’s going...

When a team of 18 biologists in mid-August rescued threatened Central California Coast steelhead trout in Coyote Creek, the magnitude of the feat wasn’t lost on anyone involved.

Reps announce $1M in funding for climate mitigation efforts U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will distribute $1 million to Santa Clara and San Benito counties to develop...

The 2021 National Night Out in downtown Morgan Hill was all about the community on Aug. 3. Police, firefighters and public safety officials handed out stickers and ice cream, played games with energetic kids, and sought to meet as many local residents as they could....

When the Live Oak High School senior found out early this spring that school might be closing down for a while, he took on a virtual project that was much bigger than himself.

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...

A year ago, the Britton Middle School seventh-grade boys basketball team was denied a storybook ending, suffering its first and only loss of the season in the East Side Athletic League playoff championship game.  With many of those same players grading a year up and...

Police are asking the public for information about a shooting that occurred early in the morning May 16 in downtown Morgan Hill. The shooting occurred at 3:04am in the parking lot behind The Hill, which is located on the 17330 block of Monterey Road. Morgan...

Morgan Hill resident Bryant K. Wong, who plans to pursue a career in pharmaceutical science, has been named a National Merit Scholarship finalist, according to the organization that selects and awards the annual scholars.  Wong is a student at Valley Christian High School in San...