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With the holiday season upon us, December is a month of celebrations and spending time with friends and loved ones. However, it is also a time to remember how much we value those who are closest to us.

SAN JOSE – Brent Burns buried a one-timer inside the left post with 37.5 seconds left in overtime to lift the San Jose Sharks past the St Louis Blues 3-2 Saturday night.San Jose completed a 5-0 homestand by erasing a 2-1 deficit in the final 21 seconds of regulation.Burns recorded his 10th goal of the season off a feed from Joe Pavelski. The Sharks went on a power play with 1:03 left in the extra session when Pavelski was tripped by Blues winger Alexander Steen.Joe Thornton’s hustle to gain control of a loose puck in the Blues zone in the final 30 seconds of the third period led to the equalizer.Coach Todd McLellan pulled goaltender Atti Niemi with less than two minutes to play. The Blues had control of the puck for 15 seconds behind the San Jose net before Melker Karlsson was able to pull the puck toward the St. Louis end. Thornton burst through the neutral zone, jammed the puck away from a Blues forward and sent the puck across the ice. Marc-Edouard Vlasic, coming off the bench, was in stride as he whistled a low shot from the top of the left circle past a screened goaltender Jake Allen.“I figured somebody was going to be there,” explained Thornton of his blind pass that set up Vlasic’s fourth goal of the season.San Jose, with nine wins in the past 10 games, visits Anaheim Tuesday and Los Angeles Saturday before a home date with Vancouver Tuesday Dec. 30.St. Louis mounted an 8-2 edge in shots on net in a scoreless first period. The Sharks came up with the first goal before the visitors built a 2-1 edge entering the second intermission.Andrew Desjardins earned his second goal of the season 10:47 into the second period. Justin Braun used the sideboards to find Desjardins in stride entering the Blues zone. Desjardins reached the bottom of the left circle before his shot dipped between Allen’s body and right arm.St. Louis drew even at the 14:29 mark when Patrick Berglund turned a rebound of an Alex Petrangelo shot from the high slot into his fourth goal of the season.Steve Ott raced past the San Jose defense for a breakaway goal at the 17:21 mark. Ott’s first goal of the year ended a 58-game goalless streak.“It was a big win for us,” said McLellan, noting that the Sharks limited the Blues to 12 shots over the final two periods plus overtime.NOTES: San Jose plays the Blues two more times within the next eight games to complete the season series…SAP Center drew a sold-out crowd of 17,562, the fifth full house of the season…Mirco Mueller, Chris Tierney and Matt Irwin were the Sharks’ healthy scratches…San Jose has 42 points in second place in the Pacific Division.

Here at the height of the Christmas season, we’ve kicked it into overdrive. Since Thanksgiving, we’ve been decorating and organizing, gift-finding and wrapping, crafting and baking. House lights are up, stockings are hung, Christmas trees sparkle with magic, as if delivered by Santa himself. In the background we envision an appropriate accompaniment to our colossal efforts: the Boston Pops Orchestra’s playing of the “Hallelujah Chorus.”

Londoners know, and visitors find, that the city is unlike any other capital in the world. London projects the whole essence of Britain. The creation of London at her birth--as an urban settlement dating back to Roman times--tells a story all its own and perhaps a hint of how this grand city of today gathered the strength to survive and become one of the leading cities in the world.

As Thanksgiving shrinks in the rearview mirror, the goodie-focused holiday season continues with festive music playing on the radio, the scent of pumpkin spice tickling the nose and colorful lights dazzling the eyes. And the taste buds?

Dear Mr. Regan, My name is Donna Fischer and I'm a nurse at Saint Louise Regional Hospital. I am not a member of your union and I have never met you personally, but for the past two months you've been trying to get my attention about the sale of our Daughters of Charity hospital to Prime Healthcare.

Taken from James M. Barrie timeless story “Peter Pan,” intellectual wit Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson created a Peter that tells the story of the how and where the boy came from. “Peter and the Starcatcher” is imaginatively transferred to the stage by Tony Award-winning writer Rick Elice with award-winning director Robert Kelly at the helm. Twelve of the best actors in TheatreWorks’ list play 50 characters telling the story of how and why Peter Pan was the boy who never wanted to grow up.

The City is allowing developers to use potable water to water down dust from construction? This in itself is typical of the city: give developers whatever they want. What is just as troubling is the ignorance of Planning Manager Susan Martin regarding her response to a Red phone inquiry about the continued development of Gilroy. She stated, “Whether Gilroy is in a drought ..." The City of Gilroy included a flyer in (a recent) billing stating "drought alert." The State of California is in the worst drought conditions in over 100 years. So what is the answer? Is all of Gilroy in a drought condition, including developers or just the residents? Can you get some clarification from the city?