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March 25, 2026

Guest View: Writing skills essential in 21st century

The ability to communicate in writing is undoubtedly the most important skill a student will ever learn. However, an absence of challenging reading materials and writing assignments in high school, students' increased use of texting and other forms of electronic communication and teenagers' general apathy have contributed to the national drop in skill use and aptitude according to R. Ferguson, CEO of  ACT.

Letter: We are living in a permanent Halloween

Halloween, where yards become planted in gravestones and ghosts and offices appear cobwebbed and spidery to make scary fun… Children love to transform into monsters with big mouths and sharply pointed teeth to scare everyone.   Scary Halloween is enjoyable because it is all in fun....

Peace at any cost?

The Freedom Rally and the Hollister-in-Black peace-at-any-price

Device that deciphers writing very useful

A couple of years ago, there was talk about a product on the

Letters to the Editor (Dec. 30)

Thanks for Putting Symphony in the Newspaper's Spotlight

Confederate Flag is a Symbol of the South in Battle

You have a lot of nerve comparing the Confederate flag to the

Social Security reform will make the nation stronger

In reading Molly Ivins' column about Social Security it made me

Better mountain lion management needed

Despite the ignorant cries of

Hollister officials raise accountability for faraway owners

The Hollister City Council takes action against a big

Report from the Badlands

Life is so precarious in New Idria that when one vehicle breaks

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