Letters

I would like to thank you for running this year’s VFW announcement for the Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest. We received over 75 entries from nine different schools. Thank you.

The Hollister City Council never ceases to amaze me. In my 26 years as a resident, more than 20 of those as a business owner, I have been appalled by many lamebrain decisions. Monday’s decision to sell the property on the 400 block of San Benito Street to developers for retail and condominium space is at the top of list. I can’t begin to imagine what council members are thinking. Have they taken a walk downtown lately and counted the empty retail spaces? Have they driven on the pothole-filled streets that can’t even handle the existing traffic?

This being the Easter season I felt it was time to express my concern and, I will say it, utter disdain toward the move by the public schools in Hollister to no longer connect spring break to Easter.  

As a supporter of “Yes on Measure Q,” I get upset when I read the unsupported claims that the opponents of measure Q are using to promote their cause.  This raises the question, what is their cause and why are they willing to go to...