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January 24, 2026

Birthday, baptism and music that’s contagious

Watched the Grammys and it proved that if you wait long enough everything will come back around ... even the Beach Boys and Paul McCartney. Though I'm not so sure those acts improved a ho-hum show this year. Tony Bennett, however, is another story. Born as Anthony Dominick Benedetto, he's 85, the voice is still crooningly clear and strong and his passion for the music is contagious. His Duets II album coming out soon is on my iTunes "buy it" list.

‘Death Of The Novel’: Exceptional cast delivers

Sebastian Justice (Vincent Kartheiser), a successful writer, finds himself in the depth of an impasse in his life – he’s a depressed agoraphobic with a sense of humor and a lust for sex and love, and needs to find a reason to live. Dynamic people come in and out of his life trying to find out what has caused this dilemma and trying to get him back on track with writing and life.

New House, New Rules

This is Lydia Eden-Irwin's first column for South Valley Newspapers. She, her husband and family live in Gilroy. Her column will run in Lifestyles on Fridays.

Martinez boys earn Eagle honors

Daniel and Michael Marinez of Boy Scouts of America Troop 717 of

What women want … for the holidays

It's the holidays. Time for mistletoe, pumpkin pie and men in

Helping a baby opossum survive

It was an all-too-common urban situation: On May 8, a dead opossum was found by the side of the road in Morgan Hill. The Good Samaritan who stopped to check on the animal discovered that eight of its babies were dead, but found the ninth alive, though just barely, and still clinging to its mother.

Yosemite: A place of matchless beauty

It is recorded in the great book that God made the world in six days. What wasn't recorded was that during one of those days, God might have wondered where he was going to spend his R and R on the seventh day. It was then that he must have decided to create Yosemite.

Reel ‘Em In!

Everything you need to know about catching 'reel' big fish in

The joyful wonders of the Disney-like elevator ride

Have you ever noticed how obsessed kids are about elevators?

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