CHP ramps up motorcycle traffic safety
In an effort to reduce the number of motorcycle crashes, the California Highway Patrol Hollister-Gilroy Area will deploy additional officers July 4-5, within south Santa Clara and San Benito counties. Officers will look for violations by both motorcycle riders and drivers that make roads...
Hotel MOHI names new sales, marketing director
Hotel MOHI by Appellation, expected to open in downtown Morgan Hill in early 2026, recently appointed Jennifer Van Every as Director of Sales & Marketing.
Van Every will oversee all sales, marketing and event strategies for the first full-service boutique hotel in Morgan Hill, MOHI...
Religion: Halloween and All Souls/Dia de Los Muertos
This weekend we observe two cultural/religious days: Halloween and All Souls’ Day (Día de Los Muertos in Spanish). The celebrations are related but not identical.
Día de Los Muertos, observed on Nov. 2, is a day to remember loved ones who have died. In Mexico...
Dolores Huerta to headline Hollister Visionary Women’s Luncheon
The Latino Coalition of San Benito County has announced that legendary labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta will attend the Annual Visionary Women’s Luncheon, set to take place 11:30am-3pm Aug. 23 at the Elks Lodge in Hollister.
The luncheon will include a silent auction...
Leadership Morgan Hill celebrates 30 years
For three decades, Leadership Morgan Hill’s annual nine-month course has been teaching people who think they know their community that they have much more to learn.
Cricket Rubino discovered this firsthand in 1999. Already deeply ingrained in the community through her involvement with organizing the...
Morgan Hill sensory gym brings Halloween festivities to everyone
Children and families who receive occupational therapy services from a Morgan Hill sensory integration gym were recently treated to a special safe and inclusive Halloween celebration—complete with trick-or-treating—at the facility’s headquarters.
The celebration took place Oct. 5 at OT Park on Digital Drive. OT Park...
Generations apart, advocates forge cross-country partnership
A local nonprofit founder who spent three decades in prison for murder has forged an unlikely partnership with a 13-year-old New York City student, uniting across generations and 3,000 miles to address America's fatherlessness crisis.
Terrance Hunter, founder of Morgan Hill-based Empowering the Fatherless, received...
Sobrato theater tackles school shooting subject with ‘26 Pebbles’
Ann Sobrato High School’s theater program is presenting “26 Pebbles,” a documentary-style play about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, now in its closing weekend with the final two showings to take place Nov. 14-15 at 7pm in the Sobrato Performing Arts Center.
The docu-drama...
Acorns hit the big screen
A home-grown documentary about Morgan Hill’s first high school lacrosse team is ascending to a national audience as Brad Ledwith’s “The Mighty Oaks” is set to be distributed to major streaming platforms.
When Ledwith’s kids came home from lacrosse camp in 2017 declaring it the...
Morgan Hill shares its thanks
With the season of thanks upon us and as thousands of Morgan Hill families prepare for their annual Thanksgiving feast, the Times this week sought the wisdom of local community leaders to achieve some insight into what there is to be thankful for this...
