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December 19, 2025

Letter: Fed up with packaging

Surely anyone who has seen me knows that I am very overweight, and I know that many of you want to ask me about it but you are too polite to do so. I’m going to save you the bother. The truth is that I am fat because I own power and powerful tools. My tools, especially the electric drill, power saws, vise, six-foot pry bars, blowtorch, steel puncture awl, strap wrenches, hammers, and cold chisels make it possible to do something that my wife and fully 72 percent of other seniors cannot do—open the new packaging designed to protect foodstuffs from spoilage, tampering, pilferage, and a 10-megaton nuclear explosion in the driveway.

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157128~Grief and inspiration ---My sister, Julia Cecilia Smith,

Report from the Badlands

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

Editorial Board Endorsement: Richman is the right choice for mayor

As many voters did earlier this year, we supported electing an at-large mayor. In these financially calamitous times for Hollister – defined by lacking accountability, passive management, neglect of economic foresight and irresponsible deficit spending year after year after year – it was well past the point of desperately needing a true leader and a new direction.

This may be the last day of peace

This may be the last day of peace for the United States for some

Letter: Kudos to council on 400 block

Kudos to the Hollister City Council and the SBC Community Foundation for supporting and voting to sell the 400 block of San Benito Street for multiuse development. This is the kind of vision that we need in Hollister, to grow our community. But we can’t stop there! Kollin Kosmicki’s last week’s column on “Create new pedestrian square on San Benito” is right on as well!

Letter: Stories of courage worth attention

The press has done a very good job of reporting about the challenges our veterans face. We all have read or seen stories about our wounded  warriors. About traumatic brain injury. About veterans suffering from  depression and other serious mental health issues. About those who have  lost limbs or endure other physical hardships. These are serious issues that deserve our attention, especially on Veterans Day. What also deserves our attention, but which gets much less press, is the fact that  military veterans are twice as likely to develop – and die from – Lou  Gehrig's Disease as those who have not served in the military.

‘Teacher, the councilman’s makin’ faces!’

When I first read about the Palo Alto City Council's newest

Letter: Emerson is well prepared to be mayor

I'm a grant writer and project manager in affordable housing, generally in Monterey County, East Bay, or out-of-state. This February I went to Sacramento for an all-day workshop sponsored by the State Department of Housing and Community Development to explain their radically revised grant application regulations for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. It was the first in a series held around the state. At 9 a.m., I looked at the table to the left of me, and there was Doug Emerson!  On his own time, he had volunteered to attend the workshop so that Hollister/San Benito/local non-profit staff could get a jump on finding out how to fill out the applications, instead of waiting three weeks later for the workshop in Salinas.  I consider this a typical example of his practical approach, unselfishness, and understanding of how to get things done.  He straightened out the mess with the state over the CDBG grant that prevented the City of Hollister for applying for funds for something like eight years. He's sensible, well prepared in his Council deliberations and has a proven track record in collaboration and partnership building.  I think he's exactly what we need for the brightest possible future for our community.

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