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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 But there’s no need to worry, as the newsracks have been replaced by brand-new machines placed in centralized locations...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scott Jackson could only shake his head in disappointment afterward. The Sobrato High girls water polo coach was helpless as the Bulldogs let a big lead slip away en route to a heartbreaking 10-9 loss to Aragon of San Mateo in a Central Coast...

The future is bright for Gavilan College with the passing of a $248 million bond measure Nov. 6 as well as the election of three new members to its governing body. A combined 57 percent of voters in Santa Clara and San Benito counties (who...

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith won a sixth consecutive term in office after defeating challenger John Hirokawa in the Nov. 6 election. With 100 percent of the votes counted, Smith obtained 147,319 ballots, compared to 113,655 votes for Hirokawa, according to the Santa Clara...

Authorities arrested a registered sex offender who exposed himself to three people—including a 13-year-old girl—the morning of Oct. 23 in the Morgan Hill and Gilroy areas, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Sexual assault detectives with the sheriff’s office arrested the suspect, Damian...

In September 2017, a week before Labor Day, owner Erik Wagle received the go-ahead to begin the expansion of his facility, Dub Baseball. He wasn’t about to waste a second in getting started.  “Once we got the green light, we put a ton of wheels...