Letters: Betabel pamphlets unwelcome
The flames of this cartoon certainly grabbed my attention or better yet my thoughts as I puzzled over the readout on the hand-held device picturing the country in a conflagration.
Letter: Let’s keep winning
“I just wanted them to feel what it’s like to win,” said Bryan Smith, Baler football coach. I think that’s the way San Benito County residents should feel because our SBC Health Department announces that about 24% of us have been fully vaccinated. That...
Letter to the editor: Many thanks to Chuck E. Cheese crew
In 1982, Chuck E. Cheese opened up their Games Division Manufacturing Facility on Shelton Drive. At that time, I was the Director of The Games Division.
It was a great time in my life as I was able to hire many employees from Hollister. Their...
Letters to the editor: Back to school, Strada Verde
Parents, you MUST ABSOLUTELY let your board members know in no uncertain terms that you want your kids in school this fall. If you don't want your child to go to school then opt for distance learning and see how far behind your child will be at the end of the next school year.
Letter: More questions on homeless camp proposal
After re-reading several times, “Supervisors Reject Flynn Road Camp,” (July 30) questions still remain. One big question haunting me is, how can supervisors trivialize a thorough report by a sterling employee?
Another is, how can a business owner with two employees derail a program destined...
Letter: Let’s work together to vaccinate the world
Will another Dr. Jonas Salk bring an end to this Covid pandemic? Have people not known or have forgotten what living in a polio epidemic was like? Let me remind you. A lifetime of paralysis, iron lung living or death were proximate outcomes for...
Letter: Hospital jigsaw puzzle unsolved
Re: Hospital receives LOI from a fourth suitor, Free Lance 2/2/24
A jigsaw puzzle can be challenging and satisfying. Different smooth or angular shapes can take a great deal of thought while examining some pieces with rounded peninsulas while contemplating other pieces with rounded bays...
Letter: Abolish the COG
Motorists are paying more than 102% of the cost of highway construction and maintenance with our gas taxes. Meanwhile, transit riders are paying only about 1% of all costs, fixed, capital and operational of their transit rides. Most bus seats are transported empty in SBC,...
Letter to the editor: Keep sending mail
The United States Postal Service is committed to delivering your mail and packages throughout the current pandemic.
Save the local economy
Open letter to the San Benito County Supervisors and Community:
Before March 3, we had Measure K. A ballot measure designed to halt a new zoning ordinance that was applied to four commercial projects at currently developed locations on Highway 101.
Today, on March 24, the...