Students from Gilbert Junior High School said the campus was abuzz with excitement Wednesday after the district board voted 4-1 Tuesday to rescind a prior decision to close the campus.

Gilbert Junior High School seventh-graders may not know until early next year where they will attend school in August 2013, following a decision by the district governing board Tuesday night.

The Gilbert Unified School District has moved its Tuesday governing board meeting -- when the board will vote on whether to close Gilbert Junior High -- to the cafeteria of Mesquite High School.

Many parents were unhappy Tuesday night as they learned more about their school district’s proposal to close Gilbert Junior High as a neighborhood school and move Gilbert Classical Academy into its space.

Gilbert Junior High School would be closed as a neighborhood school and Gilbert Classical Academy would move there under a plan outlined in a parent letter sent home this week.

Gilbert police officers will soon be carrying stun guns alongside their batons and pepper spray.

August 2, 2004

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

Gilbert celebrates the life and message of Martin Luther King Jr. next week with a breakfast and downtown unity walk.

Type "Gilbert Town Council salary" into Google and most of the top hits center on a candidate who says he won't accept any pay if elected for the job.

The sign below Gilbert’s student section read “Kiss My Grass.” After Chandler Basha’s defense chewed up Gilbert for a 31-21 road victory Friday to spoil the Tigers’ homecoming, Basha coach Tim McBurney ran over, took the sign and brought it to his players.

Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman will not be charged or prosecuted in a domestic violence case brought by his wife last year.

Striking the right balance offensively and defensively. If that happens in 2008, Gilbert High expects a repeat trip to the 5A Division I playoffs — and a longer stay.

Five members of a Gilbert family were killed Sunday in a single-engine plane crash near Santa Rosa, N.M.

From a large glossy photo to his most famous words, the life and dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. were on display Monday in Gilbert.

Thirty-one Gilbert residents have applied for the vacant town council seat, including former mayor Cynthia Dunham and former councilwoman Joan Krueger. Monday was the deadline.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has withdrawn the order of protection against Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman that was sought by his estranged wife in July.

A confrontation over drug money owed led to a late Saturday night shooting of two men in Gilbert.

November 11, 2004

Gilbert Mayor Steven Berman has been given back his cache of guns and ammunition just weeks after a court commissioner decided he was too volatile to possess the weapons.

Mesquite High School will graduate 446 students this year. Students have been awarded just over $6 million in scholarships.

The Gilbert girls basketball team didn’t have leading scorer Whitney Southerland to rely on down the stretch Monday night.

The Gilbert Tigers got an early start on the high school football season with a 6 a.m. workout Monday.