While residents with school-aged children are focusing on replenishing their stock of class supplies before the fall semester begins on Aug. 19, the United Way of San Benito County has launched a drive to collect those same items for low-income families in the community.
It was 8:30 a.m. on Black Friday, and many residents of Kauai were still waiting in lines for the tempting sales being held at the island's few large retailers: Macys, Walmart and Kmart. However, more than 100 visitors were lined up with me to visit one of the local spiritual treasures – an anomaly among the usual visitor destinations of rugged coastlines, sunny beaches and resort hotels.
One of the Hollister Free Lance Water Cooler panelists was quoted in the paper as saying “Unions, which were a god send to working people in the past have become too powerful today.”
A resident called the Red Phone this week to question why large trucks were still parking for long periods of time - "all day, every day" in some areas - despite city rules enacted in November prohibiting it.