FILE - Garlic products are seen for sale at the Garlic Shoppe in Gilroy, California on May, 30, 2019. JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images This article originally appeared on KSBW.com .

For local business owners like Alex Larson, co-owner of the Gilroy Garlic Shoppe and Rapazzini Wine, the festival’s comeback will bring opportunities for businesses to showcase their creations.

It was around 5 p.m. Sunday when Santino William Legan cut a hole in the fence at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, ... Len Silva was waiting outside a silkscreen shop to buy a “Gilroy Strong” shirt.

GILROY — Nineteen days before the rampage at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, 19-year-old Santino William Legan bought an AK-47-style assault rifle at a Nevada gun shop.

After a decades-long run, the Gilroy Garlic Festival — an event known around the world — has been canceled for this year and “perhaps the foreseeable future,” organizers say.

And we will lose a lot of business because of it, I think,” Dolores Naslund, a worker with The Garlic Shoppe. The steep decline of the festival is easily traceable to the 2019 mass shooting ...

After a decades-long run, the Gilroy Garlic Festival — an event known around the world — has been canceled for this year and “perhaps the foreseeable future,” organizers say. The nonprofit ...

After a decades-long run, the Gilroy Garlic Festival — an event known around the world — has been canceled for this year and “perhaps the foreseeable future,” organizers say. The nonprofit association ...