Tag: san juan bautista

Summer has arrived and the birds are jubilantly chirping, the flowers are delightfully fragrant, and the sun-kissed blueberries are ripe enough to eat. Ah, summer. What’s not to like? Gardening, family strolls through San Juan Bautista and the occasional trip to the beach are just a few of my personal favorites. Prior to summer break [for my kiddos] I was carefully mapping out [their] summer enrichment programs. Swimming, YMCA day camp equivalents, and trips to the Boardwalk … You know, the usual. I was reflecting on the total cost of keeping my two boys engaged, busy and entertained throughout the summer. I kept thinking that just the attempt to make sense of the summer shenanigans was in itself absurd. I stopped jotting all the happenings and events in my calendar and did what any like-minded mother would do. I called my best friend for some of that old-time enlightenment.

At Anzar High School, it’s all about individualism. When the graduates walked this week, they did so with caps touting a golf ball, flowers, fringe, a medical stethoscope and even a Mexican flag.

When classes end for the summer, those receiving subsidized school breakfasts and lunches may start to feel the pangs of hunger.

Free Lance columnist Sonora Vasquez opens up about the possible implications from Ireland's historic vote on same-sex marriage. Vasquez asks the question: Is this the gateway?

For the estimated 16,000 rib lovers who made the pilgrimage to San Juan Bautista on May 16-17, the journey was more than worthwhile.

Los Angeles resident Ilia Carson went whizzing through San Juan Bautista last week on her quest to walk across California and stop at every mission in the state.

San Juan Bautista has a League of United Latin American Citizens chapter.

Laynee “Bluebird” Reyna helped to found the California Indian Market 31 years ago, but this year’s event in May is the last with her at the helm.

Perched on a chair by the window facing the main street in downtown San Juan Bautista, Aaryahi Vaidya, 9, silently licked a cone of cookie dough ice cream.