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The latest San Benito Stage Company show promises to be quite funny – it is so laugh-inducing that the eight-person cast has been having a hard time keeping a straight face delivering their lines during rehearsal.

The Catholic Diocese of San Jose, encompassing all of Santa Clara County, was inaugurated in 1981. It has grown steadily since then, to an estimated 650,000 members now. Yet, only three new parishes have been formed, the latest in 1994.

Tiger Woods, wearing a windbreaker and answering questions humorously and seriously, spoke nearly 1,540 words of insight about his own game and that of his amateur playing partner this week at the AT&T National Pro-Am, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.

When it comes to winning games, Bruce Bochy does more with less. He wouldn't mind a little more relaxation.

Abraham Lincoln never visited Silicon Valley, but he would no doubt appreciate the spirit of innovation and ingenuity that exists in our global high-tech epicenter. Lincoln, whose birth date is Sunday, happens to be the only U.S. president who ever received an invention patent. That fact leads me to believe he would have a word or two to say to many of today's politicians who are now thwarting efforts to upgrade America's patenting system .

I have good news and bad news for Valentine's Day. The good news is, it only happens once a year. The bad news is, unless you are a kindergartner, your easy Valentine's Days are way, way behind you. Yeah, I'm thinking that makes us circle right back to the good news, right?

The Gavilan College baseball team took the diamond for its season debut with a three-game set against visiting College of the Siskiyous on Friday and Saturday and took two out of the three tilts.

At Ladd Lane Elementary, Noah Fort is a talent-show superstar. It isn't because he knows how to sing - though, he may - it's because he knows how to handle a bowstaff and wield his fists and legs.

The recent decade has seen a tsunami of growth of U.S. nonprofit organizations many of them sheltering enormous revenue and assets under the tax-free umbrella. Some are also directly or indirectly in competition with private enterprise, which has to shoulder more of the remaining tax burden on an unlevel playing field. Additionally, nonprofits have increasing political influence because of their wealth.

It is getting harder and harder for nonprofit organizations to get by such as Jovenes de Antano, which services seniors and is the only group of its kind in San Benito County.