Parent complains of treatment toward child refusing to stand for Pledge
A nonprofit legal center representing a sixth-grade student at San Martin/Gwinn Elementary School contends that a classroom teacher violated several children’s constitutional freedom to not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Local Scene: Bay Area Panthers to host open tryouts in Morgan Hill
Le Truong graduates
Thao Le Truong, of Morgan Hill, earned an Associate of Science degree with studies in Business Administration from Georgia State University during the fall 2022 semester.
Georgia State University, an enterprising urban public research university, is a national leader in graduating students from...
Community garden cultivates food, friendship
On sunny afternoons at the Morgan Hill Community Garden, Charlie Beecroft tends to his plot of vegetables and herbs. After downsizing to a home in Morgan Hill with virtually no yard, the community garden has become his outdoor sanctuary.
“For us, it was a great...
Coastal Cleanup Day gatherings return Sept. 18
The California Coastal Commission announced that the 37th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day will return to in-person gatherings at sites around the state on Sept. 18.
On that day, Californians are encouraged to take to streets, parks, creeks, streams, rivers and the coast from 9am...
Joel Rueda returns to lead Sobrato High football
It’s difficult for a high school football program to have sustained success if the coaching staff turns over every couple of years.
Sobrato High has had its fair share of football coaching changes recently which makes the hiring of Joel Rueda a vital one. In...
Local Scene: Holiday Lights parade is Saturday in downtown Morgan Hill
Caltrain service suspended for electric work
Caltrain will suspend some service beginning Monday between its San Jose Diridon and Tamien stations to accommodate electrification work.
From Monday to Friday (Dec. 1), the last southbound train 146 will terminate at San Jose Diridon, Caltrain said in a...
Community Solutions’ programs help ease burden of the season
Struggling to make ends meet is a fact of life for many South County families, and the holiday season adds an additional burden. But thanks to Community Solutions, many of those families are provided a respite from their worries.
In 1977, when Nancy Neyer-Kinoshita joined...
Morgan Hill Clubhouse aims to get more youth in college
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley is bringing its Future Grads program—which is designed to prepare and encourage more young people to go to college—to its club in Morgan Hill.
Future Grads realizes a student’s dream by building a college-going mindset and defining...
New MHUSD trustees to be sworn in at Dec. 9 meeting
Newly elected trustees Gino Borgioli, David Gerard and Donna Foster-Ruebusch, along with incumbent re-elect Ron Woolf, will be sworn in at the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Dec. 9 Board of Education meeting prior to the caucus adjourning to closed session.
