Gilbert Unified School District's governing board voted Tuesday to reinstate a 2 percent salary increase for administrators.

The Gilbert skyline is changing as metal beams outline the shape of Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in an ongoing $145million construction project.

Dave Allison is a former Canadian school superintendent who moved his family to Gilbert 15 years ago to work in the Gilbert Unified School District. He’s known as a humble, private man who’s proactive in his job and the community.

Vernon "Sonny" Payne recently stepped into the Farm House Restaurant in downtown Gilbert wearing a hat and boots and dark glasses.

Vernon “Sonny” Payne recently stepped into the Farm House Restaurant in downtown Gilbert wearing a hat and boots and dark glasses.

Gilbert will host German leaders this week as part of an international fellowship program to study city management and government administration.

Gilbert was a small but growing town filled with alfalfa and cotton fields and optimistic developers when Debra Nossaman opened a 1,500-squarefoot animal clinic at 425 W. Guadalupe Road in 1987 in the Golden Key Plaza.

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It’s been only five months since the Gilbert Sister Cities adopted Guabuliga, Ghana, as the town’s first "Friendship City," but the community has already begun to transform education there.

In the mood to do some good? Donate some blood and help maintain the supply for local hospitals. United Blood Services will hold a blood drive Wednesday. The bloodmobile will be parked in front of the town’s administration building at 50 E. Civic Center from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. It will then move to the police department, 75 E. Civic Center, where it will be open from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

A long-delayed appeal of a Gilbert ruling that conventional apartment complexes can’t be built at the Main Street Commons without a use permit is expected to move forward Wednesday.

The growing Gilbert Unified School District is moving forward with construction of a new elementary school and is giving a facelift to an existing junior high.

About 800 Little League players in Gilbert have yet to secure fields for next season as November registration approaches.

Trains have traveled through Gilbert since the early 1900s — the town itself grew up around the tracks of Arizona Eastern Railway.

Trains have traveled through Gilbert since the early 1900s — the town itself grew up around the tracks of Arizona Eastern Railway.

About 400 people turned out Monday night for a meeting called by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix to explain why a popular Gilbert priest was suspended on accusations he broke church law.

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The logo on the business cards and company Web site of Around the Clock TLC, II, an assisted living service in Gilbert, is a clock surrounded by a large, red heart.

Two companies proposing major hospitals across the street from each other in Gilbert say the area is in need of heath care services so badly that both projects could succeed, creating a cluster of medical facilities in the region.

Gilbert was abuzz in 2005 when crews were supposed to break ground on Main Street Commons, an upscale mix of retail, office and residential that would be the town’s answer to the similar Kierland Commons.

Scottsdale mail-bombing survivor Don Logan will the featured speaker at Gilbert’s commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on Friday.