Tax hikes and ballot-box budgeting take center stage
I haven't been this annoyed by a state election ballot since
A Western on TV and the youngest daughter in my heart
It's been a long time since I've watched a Western. But it's
Golf Tips: Future solutions for Woods rules fiasco
During Masters week, the No. 1 question I was asked related to Tiger Woods’ two-stroke penalty after a rules official gave him permission to drop his ball. This raises the question of allowing a ruling reversal – including a penalty – to be enforced after a tournament committee reviewed a tape or somebody calling in after seeing it on television.
‘Beauty And The Beast’: Delightfully enchanting
“Beauty and the Beast” is a delightful presentation. Everyone knows the engaging tale: Belle finds herself in an enchanted castle where the Beast and all the inhabitants are trapped in an animated state because of a witch’s cruel curse that only Belle can break. And as in all fairytales, everyone lives happily ever after. But getting there is delightful fun.
Speaker shares inspiring story of the Holocaust
It is history’s best-documented story of genocide, the attempt to extinguish a whole people: the Holocaust.
San Martin church celebrates centennial
Nineteen hundred and four was a long time ago: Theodore
Getting out: Find your landscape
As I sat down to write about another hike at another park, a
Local Author Writes Supernaturally
Leta Rae Pereira is a local author residing in Hollister. She and her husband Joe re-located to this area in 2005. She is the mother of a daughter and son, and the grandmother of three grandsons and two granddaughters. She has served as a peer counselor at Hollister Pregnancy Center since 2008, and is involved in the activities of her church home, Hollister Christian Fellowship. These are all rolls she has cherished. Yet, there is one other she never anticipated. She had never imagined that writing poetry was going to become a part of her life's story. Even so, it happened...suddenly!
Despite term limits, political class thrives
Some call it musical chairs, the way every couple of years















