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A couple of weeks ago, if you saw a gray pickup heading out of town toward Highway 152, loaded down with furniture and looking more like a U-Haul truck than a pickup, that was me.  Like all parents of college-age children, it’s that time of...

Rotary Club of Morgan Hill will offer $24,000 in small grants to local nonprofits for work that supports the Morgan Hill community. The application deadline is Oct. 31. The Hearts of Rotary grants program seeks nonprofit organizations that have unfunded needs for specific items, typically...

Youth Alliance and South County Cal-SOAP on Sept. 18 announced a new partnership designed to strengthen college and career access for students throughout San Benito and southern Santa Clara counties. Effective Oct. 1, Youth Alliance will serve as the fiscal sponsor and organizational home...

Former Santa Clara County Undersheriff Rick Sung was convicted Sept. 21 of two felony bribery charges stemming from a long-running investigation into the sheriff’s office’s issuance of concealed weapons permits. The negotiated plea, announced by the District Attorney’s Office, requires Sung to permanently surrender his...

For years, Morgan Hill resident Eelia Haney set five alarms to get herself out of bed. She fell asleep in class, sometimes for only 15 or 30 seconds at a time—microsleeps she wouldn’t even notice until she came to. It took doctors 14 years...

When Ivan Uranga decided to shut the door on a 14-year office job to own his own business, the chicken sandwiches game in Gilroy was wide open. Today, two and a half years after opening Macaco Spicy Chicken Sandwiches, competition is fierce since Chick-fil-A...

The Nov. 3 election ballot will feature numerous local races, including Mayor of Morgan Hill, two seats on the City Council and four seats on the Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Education.  The last day to register to vote for the midterm election...

The Morgan Hill City Council voted 4-1 in a tensely emotional Sept. 16 meeting to censure Councilmember Yvonne Martinez Beltrán over allegations of misconduct, including bullying and intimidation of her colleagues. The vote comes as the result of a June 3 incident in which Councilmembers...

Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is Judaism’s most solemn holy day, but its enduring power lies not in sadness. It lies in the radical proposition that human beings can stop, take account and begin again. Observed on the 10th day after the beginning of the Jewish...

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction halting construction of a proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Gilroy, a ruling county officials and community advocates celebrated Sept. 14 as a major, if not final, victory in a four-month legal fight. U.S. District...