Police blotter: Theft, burglaries
School resource activity
A female student at Britton Middle School, 80 W. Central Ave., sent inappropriate videos to other students. Police investigated and forwarded the case to the District Attorney’s office for review. The incident was reported 2:50pm Oct. 25.
Grand theft
A thief or thieves broke...
New online store for Britton supporters
Britton Middle School recently launched its new online store for local families and Bobcat supporters to purchase anything from physical education clothes and spirit gear to yearbooks and dance tickets.
The online store is the brainchild of longtime physical education teacher and coach Jim Green,...
Local inventor’s concept could limit flooding
He may not be the Wizard of Menlo Park, but for semi-retired Morgan Hill resident Erick Garcia, good ideas never die. And Garcia has many, many ideas.
Garcia claims to have invented a drink that stops the aging process (more on that below), a...
Rotary builds for the community
On Oct. 27 the Morgan Hill Rotary teamed up with Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley to pull up their sleeves and get some work done helping local homeowners make needed repairs. Together with hundreds of other volunteers in the area, they worked to rehabilitate a...
City introduces new public newsracks
Loyal readers of the Morgan Hill Times and its sister publications might have noticed that the newspapers’ newsstand vending machines scattered around town are gone. But there’s no need to worry, as the newsracks have been replaced by brand-new machines placed in centralized locations...
Local scene: Veterans Day ceremony
Coffee With the Mayors
For Mayor Steve Tate’s final “Coffee With the Mayor” session before he retires, he has invited whoever wins the Nov. 6 election to fill his seat as his special guest. The informal coffee meeting with the mayor will take place 10...
Voters approve three local measures
Morgan Hill’s voters expressed their resounding preference for a hotel tax increase, a cannabis business tax program and an appointive city clerk in the Nov. 6 election.
The three local measures won by a landslide, with more than 8,000 total votes cast on each of...
Constantine elected mayor
Rich Constantine led early in the race for Morgan Hill mayor on Tuesday, and the council member held on to a 407-vote margin in the election for Morgan Hill mayor, according to final, unofficial returns from the Nov. 6 election.
Constantine had chosen not to...
Two new faces on City Council
In the first election of City Council members from districts, in Morgan Hill, with no incumbents running, two fresh faces will be seated on the city council. Yvonne Martínez-Béltran from District B and Julie Makrai Hutcheson from District D are poised to be the...
