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Some of you wrote me telling how your pet made an impact on your life. One reader asked me to repeat my story about our childhood kitty-cat, Murphy. She was larger than life to my brothers and sister and me. Smarter than any other feline, she could open doors and find her way inside the walls of our very old house. But more than anything, she changed our father into a devoted cat person. I first wrote about Murphy 17 years ago, when I talked with a 6th grade student about euthanasia. Here, once again, is that story...

Customers were scarce Monday morning at Raley’s Nob Hill in Hollister as union employees and their supporters continued the second day of a strike that began early Sunday morning.

The Aria Women’s Choir will perform three fall concerts, including one in Hollister on Nov. 9, at 8 p.m., at St. Benedict’s Church, 1200 Fairview Road, in Hollister. The first concert of the season will be “Regina Coeli” or “Queen of Heaven.”

Organizers of the annual Holte Holiday dinner are seeking donations and volunteers to support the Thanksgiving feast on Nov. 22. The annual event was started by Marley Holte as a way to provide holiday meals to those who could not afford it or had no place to go for the holidays.

Sick, endangered condors from Pinnacles National Monument will now have the ability to get treatment a lot closer to home as part of a new partnership announced with the Oakland zoo, according to a recent announcement.

The San Benito County Association of Realtors hosted its third annual Chili Cook Off on Oct. 26. The event this year raised money to benefit the Emmaus House, a domestic violence shelter in Hollister.

The Basin and Range country beyond the Sierra Nevada is Mother Earth bare bones and naked. There are no elegant forests or misty skies to soften the landscape. Instead, the dry desert air and the high-contrast light of a relentless sun sharpen every crease and ridgeline. It is bleak, almost lifeless terrain with few temptations to linger.