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April 5, 2026

Fuzzy definitions of ‘family-friendly’ aren’t helpful

I'm a bit of stickler when it comes to the importance of

Seven reasons to spend less and save more

We can’t control bond yields, stock prices or inflation. But, there’s much we can control, including how much investment risk we take, how much we pay in investment costs, how we react to the market’s ups and downs and how much we spend and save.   

Wild Babies – Love Them and Leave Them (Alone)

Spring means nature is blooming with new life. As warm weather

Enjoy ‘A Tuna Christmas’ for a good cause

“A Tuna Christmas” is coming to the Gilroy Center for the Arts this month and you don't want to miss it! Watching Kevin Heath and Bill Tindall portray 22 different wacky characters, you will be delightfully entertained. But there is much more to this performance than simply an enjoyable introduction to the holiday season.

Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell: Beauty and power

It is March 1963. The place: the depths of Glen Canyon in Arizona.  An epic is being filmed. George Stevens is directing “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” Charlton Heston as John the Baptist is finishing filming for the day. He has a  wet suit under his costume (he had been doing scenes at the Crossing of The Father’s, where Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet). He has been standing in cold, waist high water all day (enacting the baptizing of Jesus.) He is rushing to catch the movie company’s leased DC3 for Burbank, out of the airport under construction in Page, Ariz. before daylight turns into a swampy black night, with no lights installed yet on the runway.

Every day is a new adventure – searching for keys

I've spent the last 22 years searching for my husband's keys.

Food Fit to Print

Confused which cookbooks are worth the dough? South Valley

Reflections on a national tragedy: 9/11 recalled

"Mark, this is your mom ..." So began the voicemail message left on Sept. 11, 2001, by Alice Hoagland of Los Gatos for her son, Mark Bingham, who was at that moment aboard hijacked United Flight 93. It was a message her son never heard. He and several of his fellow passengers were gathering together a plan to overtake the hijackers and prevent what would have inevitably been further tragedy if the terrorist hijackers were left to strike their intended target – most probably the White House or U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C.

Volunteering is good for your health

Margarita Barrientos lives in the shanty-town Los Pilletones on

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