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Morgan Hill Unified School District is considering full-day transitional kindergarten (TK) and kindergarten for the 2015-16 school year, according to a March 30 announcement made on the district website.

The Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce lost its third board member in less than a week, as Board Chair Rich Firato resigned from the organization Sept. 2.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its approval Monday of the first non-prescription at-home Covid-19 test that also detects the flu.  The test allows users to swab the inside of their nose and send the sample to the test's manufacturer, Labcorp, for analysis. In...

SEIU President Pam Torrisi stormed out of the school district

Results tabulated so far in two of four races for Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Trustees’ seats show clear preferences for board newcomer Terri Eves Knudsen and incumbent John Horner.  The other two races are too close to call with uncounted votes still...

The County of Santa Clara Public Health Department recently released new data showing a 19% increase in new tuberculosis (TB) diagnoses in the county in 2023, compared to the previous year.  This follows a 6% increase in new TB diagnoses in the county for 2022,...

Three seats on the Gavilan College Board of Trustees are up for grabs in the November election, and interested candidates can start submitting nomination paperwork July 18. The deadline to qualify for a spot on the ballot is Aug. 12.The Nov. 8 election will be the first since the Gavilan board voted to transition from at-large to district elections. As a result, only two of the seats up for election are currently occupied by an incumbent. “Area 2” incumbent Jonathan Brusco of Morgan Hill is eligible to run in the new district created by the board’s April 2015 action, and Trustee Mark Dover is eligible to run in “Area 4.”There is no incumbent for the “Area 6” seat which will appear on the November ballot, according to Gavilan College spokeswoman Jan Bernstein-Chargin. That seat will serve a newly created single-member trustee area, of which there are seven on the Gavilan board.At the April 14, 2015 meeting, the Gavilan Board of Trustees amended its “Board Elections” policy, stating the intention to transition to a system of by-district trustee area elections in time for the November 2016 election. Under the new process, trustees must reside in, and will be elected by the voters in each of seven single-member trustee areas.In previous elections, voters in all parts of the college district elected trustees at-large, even though trustees resided in three areas based on K-12 school district boundaries: two trustees each from Morgan Hill and Gilroy Unified School Districts, and three from San Benito High School District.With the change to by-district voting, Gavilan’s trustees be elected in each of seven single-member trustee areas, each with a Census 2010 total population of about 24,000, according to Bernstein-Chargin.Gavilan contracts with San Benito and Santa Clara County election offices to consolidate the trustees election with the general election, Bernstein-Chargin explained.Nomination paperwork for interested candidates can be processed by contacting the election office within a candidate’s county of residence starting July 18, with a deadline of Aug. 12. Contact information for both offices is as follows: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, Candidate Services, 1555 Berger Drive, San Jose, CA 95112, (408) 299-8639, sccvote.org; San Benito County Registrar of Voters, 440 Fifth Street, Second Floor, Room 206, Hollister, CA 95023, sbcvote.us, (831) 636-4016.

The American Red Cross is urging people to mark the fall season by donating blood or platelets to help the Bay Area’s supply strong.  Upcoming blood donation events are scheduled at locations in Gilroy and Morgan Hill in the coming weeks. From 10am-4pm Oct. 9,...

Hundreds of children ages 5-11 are already signed up for their first round of Covid-19 vaccinations at two clinics scheduled in South County this weekend. On Saturday, a Safeway vaccine clinic for children will take place 10am to 4pm at El Toro Health Science Academy,...

Housing costs and inflation are the top concerns for California's 9 million Latino registered voters, according to a report issued Sept. 10 by the Latino Community Foundation, a national nonprofit dedicated to Latino voter engagement.  Although some blame political candidates for high costs, most blame...