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Tierra Bella, Spanish for “beautiful land,” is the aptly named cycling tour hosted annually by the Almaden Cycle Touring Club of San Jose. Now in its 36th year, Tierra Bella had an estimated 2,000 riders cover about 144,000 miles through Gilroy and Morgan Hill on Saturday.

    DEAR ABBY: I'm a 14-year-old girl. I don't understand why adults tell me to be an independent thinker, to embrace myself, and then put me down for not conforming. Why is it outrageous to come to your own conclusions, speculate, challenge accepted ideas or find your own faith? It would be easier to quietly nod an empty head and smile to please our parents and the adults who influence kids, so they can enjoy superficial satisfaction for how "well" they have raised us.

A much smaller crowd than organizers had hoped for attended the Gilroy Community Forum at the MACSA Youth Gym on IOOF Avenue Friday night. The forum was organized as a direct response to the gang-related shooting of Jesse Silos last week.

An explosive national news story involving the sexual battery and subsequent suicide of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, a Saratoga High School sophomore, touched down at Christopher High School Thursday morning when a 16-year-old juvenile was arrested on campus in connection with the alleged crime.

In the midst of an ongoing undercover operation to nab grownups trying to purchase alcohol for minors, Morgan Hill Police have arrested five adult suspects so far as a result of the “shoulder tap” initiative. 

Former Morgan Hill Downtown Association Executive Director Jorge Briones appeared at South County Courthouse Friday for a plea hearing on charges that he embezzled the nonprofit organization’s revenues, but attorneys agreed they needed a few more days to review the case files.

Burglary

    DEAR ABBY: I'm a 50-year-old man who is serving time for robbery in West Virginia. Every day I wake up acting as if I am in control and don't have a care in the world. The truth is, I'm scared, lonely and feel totally helpless. All my life I have lived on the dark side of the street, taking for granted the values in life and the love so many people tried to give me.