Letter to the editor: Answering the mayor’s lies
Ignacio Velazquez’s screed responding to the Notice of Intention to Recall him from the Mayor’s office in Hollister opens with a lie and closes with a lie. Of course, this is to be expected from a mayor who apparently doesn’t know the difference between...
Letters to the editor: Push forward on land use; surrender to Covid-19
With so much at stake we must not let the supervisors drag us backwards. We must push them forward.
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...
Letter to the editor: Faith and pregnancy
Re: 10-8-21 Keeping dialogue open on pregnancy, infant loss (Hollister Free Lance, Oct. 8)
A wanted pregnancy ending prematurely called a “miscarriage” causes a great deal of sadness. So much so that when a pregnancy is ended purposefully it causes anger and censure. This piece...
Letter to the editor: Must practice inclusion
Latino inclusion begins with growing and harvesting our food going back at least to my childhood in World War Two. At that time, our mother brought us children to pick string beans in a San Jose field near the soon-to-be Hawaiian Gardens.
Guest view: County must keep standing up to bullies
We know by now that most adults who’ve refused the Covid-19 vaccine will not be budged, no matter what they’re told by science and common sense. They’ve chosen this as their line in the sand—or, for a more apt metaphor, their hill to die...
Letters to the editor: Thank you to the Hollister Library
Thank you to Hollister Library
I must put pen to paper and express my sincere gratitude to the Hollister Library for making the last year and a half so much better during the pandemic!! They made it possible for me to get every book I...
Letter: Groundwater is vital for life, commerce
National Groundwater Awareness Week is celebrated from March 10-16. It is an annual week of awareness, education and advocacy focusing on one of the nation’s most precious resources.
Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock. It...














