Reflections of service
Ray Friend was 30 feet away from one of the explosions that went off on the U.S.S. Enterprise on Jan. 14, 1969. Twenty-eight people died and 314 were injured in the blasts, and Friend—who was a designated shipboard firefighter/damage control man in the Navy—saw...
Kate Woods dies in crash
Environmental activist and journalist Frances “Kate” Woods, 60, died in a car accident on Panoche Road Thursday, according to the San Benito County Sheriff's Office. The single-person collision occurred around 10 a.m. at the 8,000 block of New Idria Road in south San Benito County.
CalFire initially responded. San...
