Letters

Right after my grandmother passed away in 1965, my cousin who lived in the flat above my grandmother telephoned me to tell me that she found a paper in grandma’s trunk in the attic, with names, birth dates and villages that were in Czechoslovakia and to ask would I be interested in it. I said yes and she mailed the paper to me. That paper sat in my drawer until I retired and then I started to do my family genealogy. My daughter emailed me one day and told me that she found a genealogist outside of Prague. I emailed him and asked him to do my four lines for me. I emailed him what my cousin sent to me and he said that he lived about 30 minutes away from these villages and that I gave him more information than most people do.

Here we go again! Beware of all the new construction projects!

The Bay Area boom and high costs are driving demand for housing in cities that are still affordable, so once again, Hollister is on a development spree. And just as with previous building sprees, the city is doing little to address serious infrastructure problems, primarily roads leading to/from Hollister.

Our readers need to know an important fact omitted by Marty Richman in his opinion concerning Iran and the agreement signed by the United States plus Great Britain, France, Germany and four other signature countries. All eight find it agreeable and a workable situation for stability in the Middle East.

The Preliminary SAT part is a standardized test, with mostly multiple-choice questions, to determine a student’s likely no-study SAT score. Each year about 3.6 million students take the PSAT/NMSQT test. However, for the 50,000 top scorers the PSAT could be the most important test they will ever take, because the NMSQT part of the test COULD get them into the National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP), which HAS offered about 4.500 scholarships at about 450 colleges throughout the USA for semifinalists and finalists. Last year it took a raw score of 93% to be a semi-finalist.

Want to know what the San Benito County Board of Supervisors (BOS) has been doing?  Good luck.