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Most think of San Juan Bautista resident Luis Valdez as the American playwright who wrote such classics as the play “Zoot Suit” and the film “La Bamba.”

Despite having never won an individual championship race in high school, Lenae Stevens finds herself as a part of history.

Daniel Lowell owns his own cleaning business, works as a counselor at a group home in Salinas, coaches the Anzar High cross-country team and is the race director for the Double Road Race in San Juan Bautista on Sept. 20.

September is California Wine Month and comes just in time to celebrate our brand new Wine Trail signage and another vintage year of grape-growing. The new wine trail signs give visitors a clue that they are entering wine country—with 20-some wineries between Morgan Hill and Gilroy. You can see all 70 of these signs along Watsonville Road and Butterfield and places in between, including a sign on U.S. 101 near Dunne Avenue. The highway sign is made from a mesh material to allow the wind to pass through and keep it upright no matter how hard the wind blows.

Although the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau took a vote among board members to officially oppose the Measure J initiative on the November ballot, the organization’s Green Committee has taken the opposing view.

Decades ago, Sunday was a unique day of the week: “The Lord’s Day.” Often, stores were closed, families prepared elaborate meals or visited others and people expected to attend church services. In fact, some states observed “Blue Laws,” which restricted or banned many Sunday activities.

Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital officially launched its new stroke program. The program, a contractual arrangement with the hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital and SAGE Neurology Group, offers patients suffering from stroke or other neurologic emergencies immediate 24/7 access to board certified, fellowship trained neurologists via telemedicine, using “InTouch TeleStroke” equipment in the Emergency Department provided by Good Samaritan Hospital.

Alaska is such a vast and varied place that any trip there can only superficially touch the few sites that a traveler might choose to visit. It is hard to imagine that even a lifelong Alaska resident can truly “know” such an immense and wild place.

Several projected increases in motor transportation costs pose a direct threat to the economic well-being of San Benito County. The increases could be led by a jump in motor vehicle fuel prices as part of a carbon cap-and-trade proposal, a state mileage charge to offset the loss of gas tax revenue due to more fuel-efficient vehicles, and the construction of more public and private toll roads instead of “freeways.”

El Teatro Campesino themed masks, theater and film posters and photos from the archives will soon fill the San Benito County Arts Council's new space at 240 Fifth Street.