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The first project to be exempt from Morgan Hill’s voter-approved housing ordinance will soon move forward. The Morgan Hill Apartments project by Danville-based Braddock and Logan consists of 389 units of rental housing and a three-acre park on the north side of town.  The project is...

A Gilroy day care operator is being held at Elmwood Correctional Facility without bail on six felony child abuse charges. The charges allege that Christina Johnson engaged in oral copulation or sexually penetrated a child between six and eight years of age. Five of...

A second case of the new coronavirus strain was reported in Santa Clara County on Sunday, Feb. 2,, according to county health officials. “The second case is not related to the first case,” said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County health officer, in a statement...

The City of Morgan Hill’s holiday tree was lit brightly on Dec. 7, when the local Kiwanis Club and members of the community celebrated the beginning of the winter holiday season with a slate of festivities in the downtown neighborhood. The tree is located...

Susan Dodd, who started her three-decades-plus career at Gavilan College as the first female full-time staff member in the Department of Kinesiology & Athletics, died on Feb. 1. She was 74 years old.  “Susan's dedication to Gavilan College and its students spanned almost five decades,...

Mount Madonna School's 14-student senior class interviewed legendary filmmaker George Lucas May 16 at his Big Rock Ranch in Marin County.

The Morgan Hill Unified School District is in the process of gathering input and information for its Local Control Accountability Plan, which will go a long way to determine how much funding the district will receive for student needs in the coming years.  The LCAP...

Citing “work and personal obligations” as the genesis for her early departure, trustee Teresa Murillo resigned from the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education in a self-penned Dec. 7 notification. Murillo, a first-term trustee who ran unopposed for the Trustee Area 7 seat...

Student actors in the Ann Sobrato High School Theatre Society will be giving their final two fall play performances of “12 Angry Jurors” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday inside the Sobrato Performing Arts Center

Kiefer Nguyen may not be the most talented player on the Oakwood High boys basketball team, but he’s definitely one of the most valuable.  “I’ve got bigger kids and better athletes, but I can’t take Kiefer off the floor because he shoots the ball so...