Festival shooting victims laid to rest
All three of the victims of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting that took place on July 28 have been laid to rest in their home cities. Stephen Romero, 6, Keyla Salazar, 13, and Trevor Irby, 25, lost...
View ArticleGilroy council favors interim memorial at Christmas Hill Park
Gilroy City Council members informally agreed Aug. 26 to create a temporary memorial to victims of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting. Mayor Roland Velasco reminded the council that plans presented...
View ArticleA look at Christmas Hill Park after the shooting
Gilroy Dispatch reporter Jaqueline McCool was the first reporter given escorted access to the scene of the July 28 mass shooting at Christmas Hill Park, which is still closed to the public. Here is her...
View ArticleFree concert Sept. 7 for #GilroyStronger
The morning of July 29, less than 24 hours after a shooter open fire on the crowd at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, local real estate company owners, Tina Tovar and Ruth Garcia started working on ways...
View ArticleSC County wins sanctuary city fight
Five days after taking the oath of office in 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would have suspended federal funding for cities and counties across the US, including Santa...
View ArticleCouncil bans imitation firearms
The Gilroy City Council voted unanimously Sept. 9 to amend the city code, adding a new definition of firearms and banning so-called imitation firearms, with some exceptions. “Imitation firearms”—air...
View ArticleAuthority OKs rail plans
The High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors voted to approve the preferred route for the state’s controversial bullet train at a Sept. 17 meeting. High-speed rail, if funded, will pass through...
View ArticleCity seeks support for sales tax
Top city officials in Gilroy have begun a campaign to build public support for a sales tax increase in 2020. Mayor Roland Velasco, Police Chief Scot Smithee, Interim Fire Chief Jeff Clet and City...
View ArticleQuake repairs plague downtown
It’s been nearly three decades since a 6.9 earthquake on the San Andreas Fault rocked Northern California, leaving portions of cities destroyed and 67 people dead. The road to rebuilding has been a...
View ArticleNew regs challenge housing limits
As cities like Morgan Hill and Gilroy struggle to slow construction of new housing with self-imposed slow-growth measures, they fear that the new Housing Crisis Act of 2019 could reverse their efforts....
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