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Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner in the race to become U.S. president, ousting President Donald Trump after winning the 20 electoral votes in Pennsylvania and putting him over the 270 he needed, results showed Saturday morning.  Ballots are still being counted in Nevada,...

When Sheila Murphy set out to rescue three sick goats in 2019, she figured she would nurse them back to health and hand them off to a local farm animal rescue. There was just one problem: no such rescue existed in the area. Seven years...

Morgan Hill resident Kayla Womach, a ninth grader at Valley Christian High School, (second from left in photo) was part of a four-person team to win the President’s Business Challenge, a Business & Entrepeneurship Initiative at the San Jose private school. Her team won money totaling $1,000 for the team. The winning team was announced at the annual BEI Banquet, which was held May 5 at Valley Christian High School. Through the BEI, students not only learn core business concepts through school-day courses, but are also given the chance to apply what they learn through numerous business programs, according to the school.

A second person who was shot during a Halloween party at a Gilroy City Councilmember’s house in 2021 has died from his injuries, police announced June 1. Jesse Sanchez, 19, died on May 27 from his injuries after he was one of four people shot...

Bringing History Alive

South Valley Civic Theatre’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” opens Nov. 17 and runs select days through Dec. 9 at the Morgan Hill Community Playhouse. The Tony Award-winning play is based on a novel about 15-year-old Christopher Boone, who is suspected...

Morgan Hill resident Gabrielle Gamez has been selected to participate in the National Youth Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 3-8.

It happened in the ‘70s, driving in my Camaro, I heard it for the first time, the song that would become iconic not just in the USA but around the world. The song was entitled “Imagine,” a beautiful song, a contagious song, written and...

Methodists have long been known as “a singing people.” I am not a good singer, but I can say that I am a passionate and, hopefully in God’s ears, a beautiful singer. Singing is one of the important parts of my life and in...

More than 600 local teenagers were handed their high school diplomas in separate commencement ceremonies at three Morgan Hill Unified School District high schools, as well as one local private school, by the end of last week.District officials, school board trustees and school site faculty, along with families and friends of graduates, were on hand to share in the special moment for the graduating Class of 2018.“As the parent of one of our high school graduates, I thought the graduation ceremony was a great culminating event to celebrate 13 years of hard work and achievement,” said school board vice president Mary Patterson. “For all of our high school seniors and their families and friends, the graduation ceremonies offered the right amount of celebration of the past and inspiration for the future.”Live Oak High School’s 2018 class consisted of 221 graduates; Ann Sobrato High School had a graduating class of about 350; and Central High School’s graduating class numbered 45.The Acorn co-valedictorians were Cera Huffman and Isaac Muniz, and the 2018 salutatorian was Ashley Cowell.The Bulldog valedictorian was Tai Nguyen, and the 2018 co-salutatorians were Raymond Bui and Amanda Jackson.Central’s Student of the Year was Vikash Jee.Channing Bushman, Sammy Varma, Nicholas Wilson and Isabella Rickard all gave inspirational speeches at Oakwood School’s 10th graduation ceremony, which included 42 students.