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Malfunction downtown was latest in string of main breaks

Members of the San Benito High School Outdoor Club and the Knitting and Crochet Club have come up with a clever way to reuse the plastic bags that many people have overflowing in their households after a few trips to the store.

Longer day required as audit reveals required instructional hours minimum not met

Youth Alliance fundraiser recognizes San Benito, Gilroy residents

CDBG funding request will provide shelter, job training

Divers from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office spent the afternoon searching a group of percolation ponds along Coyote Creek for evidence that might lead them to the whereabouts of Sierra LaMar, 15, who has been missing since March 16.

The Thomas Kruse Winery, established in 1971, remains a cottage industry, even in this age of fast-paced, over-committed and short attention span lives. The Kruses live and work on their 20-acre property and farm, and own 12 acres of grapes. Their wine, like our lives, are unhurried and reflect our personal terroir.

Nestled in the heart of historic Uvas Valley in Morgan Hill, Sycamore Creek is a small family-owned winery that produces limited amounts of award-winning, hand-crafted wines. The estate vineyard consists of head cane old vine plantings, as well as more modern plantings which utilize state of the art trellising and canopy management techniques. Their winemaking focuses on capturing the expression of the Uvas Valley and creating wines with great depth and finesse. When crafting each wine, they handle the fruit gently and process as little as possible, utilizing both traditional and modern fermentation and cellaring techniques to preserve the distinctiveness of Sycamore Creek Vineyards.

An operating winery since 1917, the land and microclimate is ideal for wine grape production. Solis Winery (previously Bertero Winery) was established by Dave Vanni in 1989 and is now operated by brothers, Michael and Vic Vanni.