Local Scene: Drill at San Martin Airport, Creek Cleanup
Disaster exercise scheduled at San Martin Airport
The South County Airport Pilots Association (SCAPA) Disaster Airlift Response Team (DART) stands ready to provide volunteer emergency airlift services to aid local communities’ disaster response after a cataclysmic event which impairs regional surface transportation. This year’s mobilization...
South County Salvation Army donates supplies to 43 students
The Salvation Army donated school supplies Saturday to 43 needy
MH students win science fair, two on their way to Pittsburgh
Morgan Hill students Mark Holmstrom, a junior at Live Oak High School and sophomore Theresa McLaughlin of Sobrato High School are the two winners of the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship.Â
County, employees agree on contract on eve of threatened strike
Santa Clara County and its largest union representing approximately 12,000 public employees Thursday evening reached a tentative agreement on a new 39-month contract, averting a strike that had been set for Feb. 28.
Nursing home defends opening of Covid-19 wing
While 12 patients of a Gilroy nursing home have died with Covid-19 since this summer, the facility’s management says these deaths were unrelated to their decision in August to begin admitting infected patients to an on-site Covid Recovery Unit.
Gilroy Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center staff...
District bans watering commercial, industrial, institutional lawns
As Santa Clara County suffers through a third straight year of severe drought, then a historic heat wave two weeks ago, the Valley Water Board of Directors unanimously voted Sept. 13 to strengthen existing rules aimed at reducing outdoor watering.
The board amended the existing...
Lofgren visits Salinas Valley, receives nod from Panetta, Rivas
As the decennial redistricting process wrapped up last month, the concern from The World’s Salad Bowl started to mount. Local politicians, regional business giants and other community leaders asked how a plan to pair the international agricultural hub with the Silicon Valley could stand.
Now,...
New faces in store for future of MHUSD board
As many as five new faces could be seated on the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s governing dais come November, with two trustees saying they will not seek re-election, two others undecided and another prematurely resigning prior to his term’s completion.
