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December 21, 2025

Letter: A thank you for returned keys

This big thank you is for the kind soul who found my keys and turned them in to the San Juan Bautista Library. After retracing my steps three times that morning on March 15, I thought for sure those keys were lost forever. Your honesty and caring made my day. Thank you so much and God bless you!

Letter: Community development excuses

News that problems with the Walgreens Project exist are hardly a surprise. Excuses blaming some other agency, developer, or the invisible hand are par for the course for our Community Develop Department. With decades of failed projects, missteps and poor planning, Hollister Community Development and Engineering exist solely to entertain us.

Letter: Parked cars interrupt walking habit

I have neighbors who are handicapped and their only way of trying to stay fit is walking on the sidewalks of Hollister. But they are frequently prevented from doing so safely by cars parked on our sidewalks. They tell me that they can neither pass at all, or must risk injury by having to veer into the streets or down a driveway. As a citizen of Hollister, I am very disturbed that so many of my neighbors would violate the law by parking on sidewalks.

Water Cooler: Would you feel safe on a cruise ship?

Question of the week: Considering the safety issues facing the cruise ship industry, would you feel comfortable going on one?

Guest View: Gavilan president for a month reaps $20,000?

Back surgery will keep Gavilan College President Steve Kinsella out of his office for a month this spring. But presumably following the surgery and an initial recovery period, he’ll be available on the phone should any need for a critical emergency decision arise.

Letter: We should do more to promote Pinnacles National Park

In the Feb. 22 Free Lance regarding the Pinnacles National Park, page A5’s headline says, “Pinnacles – national and local officials recently held ceremony”. The article begins on A3 with the headline “Soledad rebrands itself as the “Gateway to the Pinnacles”.

Editorial: Leaders must unite in Walgreens effort

Local government and business leaders should be putting top-down pressure on Caltrans bureaucrats to quit the bullying and allow an encroachment permit for Walgreens to build a new sewer line under Tres Pinos Road.

Editorial: Botelho loses sense of objectivity on El Rancho San Benito

It was far too premature of Supervisor Anthony Botelho to wholly dismiss a housing project at El Rancho San Benito before a prospective proposal even hits the table and before a shred of detail is revealed to the public.

Water Cooler: Will the sequestration affect you personally?

Panelists answered the question: Do you believe the sequestration and resulting service cuts will affect you personally?

Letter: County lacks publicity for Pinnacles

As a decedent of the Arthur and Schuyler Hain family, I was fortunate to be part of the historic event when Pinnacles National Monument became Pinnacles National Park.

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