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March 12, 2026

People, pets and perspectives

Last month we finally got away. Peg and I left it all behind us

The new pope’s ties to South Valley

Amazingly, the new pope has a connection to our own South Valley region.

About the ‘therapeutic lie’

I was a spectacular liar when I was a kid. I wrote on the couch with a black pen and blamed my little brother. I splashed on gallons of my mom’s Ambush perfume one day, and then denied that I had done so even when I could tell that I reeked of the heavy scent. Everyone I knew was born nearby in Boston, including me, and that seemed so pedestrian, so I told all my neighborhood friends one November that I was actually from Baltimore and would be flying there for Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with my aunt. Little did I know that a neighbor would call my parents to say that she had a relative who worked for Eastern Airlines and I could get a discount on my flight to Baltimore. My parents were livid that I would make up such a story.

Ride along with local cops

For several weeks I’ve been thinking about starting a new series profiling local police officers. “Our Officers” will begin March 13 with the profile of an officer I joined recently during his graveyard shift patrolling the streets of Gilroy.

Limelight Theatre’s ‘Nunsense’ is good fun

Award-winning Off-Broadway production Nunsense is a real tickler and keeps the laughs coming from start to finish. Limelight Actors Theatre director Kevin Heath offers a fast-moving show that has great material and clever songs performed by five Limelight pros: Betsy Andrade, Roberta Vinkhuyzen, JoAnna Evans, Rosalind Farotte and Carol Harris.

Mild Weather Causes Concern

Without a chill in the air, orchards face an altered schedule to

Volunteering is good for your health

Margarita Barrientos lives in the shanty-town Los Pilletones on

Indiana Jones: outhouse archeologist

Indiana Jones, Hollywood's most famous archeologist, is back and

Library Love

There are those

Beware of cats under car hood

Could you please warn everyone about the dangers of warm car

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