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December 4, 2024

City updates convenience store ordinance

The Morgan Hill City Council agreed to update its 26-year-old ordinance on convenience stores Dec. 4 after some business owners found it to be too restrictive. The council voted 3-1 to update the ordinance, which removed the requirement for a 1,000-foot setback between convenience stores,...

MHPOA offers $1,000 college scholarship

The Morgan Hill Police Officers Association has announced that for the first time, it will award a college scholarship to a local high school student.

Morgan Hill man receives free eye surgery

After 35 years, Joes Heeregrave was able to ditch his glasses—for free. The Morgan Hill resident was a recent beneficiary of San Jose-based Furlong Vision Correction’s annual Gift of Sight program, which provides consultation, Lasik surgery and post-operation visits at no cost to the recipients. The...

St. Louise gets repairs

Santa Clara County has completed several major renovation projects at its two hospitals—St. Louise Regional Hospital, O’Connor Hospital—and at the DePaul Health Center, and is completing several new upgrade projects. A total of $90 million in equipment and facility improvements have occurred or are taking...

Jail captain files retaliation suit

A Santa Clara County jail captain escorted off the job amid claims that she lied to a superior is now suing her former employer for racism, ageism and gender discrimination. In a lawsuit filed Nov. 13 in Santa Clara County Superior Court, Amy Le says...

MH girl lights tree

When Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Newsom light the 88th Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Sacramento Dec. 5, 10-year-old Nayeli Lemus of Gilroy will throw the switch. The fourth-grader at Charter School of Morgan Hill got a couple of days off this...

Tech park unveils revised plans

The developer of a proposed industrial complex in northern Morgan Hill has revised its plans after receiving hundreds of comments and hours of public testimony against the project. Whether its efforts were successful or not in quelling public concern will be known when the Morgan...

Christmas tree ranch opens for season

Families braved the soaking weather the day after Thanksgiving to officially begin the next holiday. Battaglia Ranch Christmas Tree Farm in San Martin opened its gates on Nov. 29 for the first time this season to welcome holiday revelers looking for their decorative centerpieces....

Judge to rule on hotel ballot measure

The final language of a local ballot measure on a Morgan Hill plan to allow construction of more hotels won’t be determined until after a superior court judge rules whether the city’s proposed wording is too argumentative in support of a “Yes” vote.

More rain on the way

South County weather conditions went from fire hazard to soaking wet as November closed out, and more rain is expected this weekend and throughout the month of December.

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