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December 6, 2025

Letter to the editor: Everyone gets a gold star

As someone who is old enough to have gone to elementary school in the 60s and early 70s, and junior and senior high school in the 70s, I remember teachers passing out gold stars. I remember trophies being awarded for WINNING athletic competitions, pinewood...

Letter: Consider these new supplies of water

As we worry through another year of possible drought, we are blessed with an atmospheric river of storms. Yet another dam proposed by Dan Walters of CalMatters.org will not fit the situation. Building a dam is not the only means to solve this problem...

Turning the lights on to show the real SBC

Dear Editor:

Get involved in the Democratic Party and process

On behalf of the local Democratic Party, I am inviting San

Letter: Some kids more informed than parents

On reading the letter from Randy Logue in the Opinion section of the Feb. 4 Free Lance, the irony of his letter and its position against 12-year-olds being capable of making sound healthcare decisions is remarkable.  The inaccuracies and astoundingly poor reasoning exhibited in the...

Point-Counterpoint: Initiative to protect county’s water, health

Note: This is part of a new feature in which two writers share opposing views on local topics.

Letter: Officials show contempt for Hollister firefighters

A political controversy has been swirling around the Hollister fire contract and triggering of a termination clause in the contract between Hollister, the County and San Juan Bautista. Two elected officials are at the center of this political drama.  Supervisor Kollin Kosmicki and Hollister Councilmember...

Cuts will affect all city workers

With all the recent news in the paper regarding layoffs of city

No comparison between Nazi and Confederate flags

Here we go again, another reader equating the Confederate Battle

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