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Are you someone who enjoys contributing to large efforts? Are you looking for an easy, low-commitment opportunity to improve Morgan Hill? If so, come one, come all because May 19 is City Beautification Day. This is your opportunity to beautify our town.

St. Francis of Assisi is one of the most popular saints in the

Many of Hollister's churches share a unique ecumenical tradition, participation in a worship experience called “Holy Stir.” Several times a year members of a variety of congregations gather together to share a common liturgy of prayers, message and music.

Created by Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink in 1988, this sometime outrageous, inventive show has developed into a grand franchise with excellent promotion throughout the world in smaller venues, television and concert type offerings. The original creators do not perform, instead seven Blue Men alternate in the three main roles with bald heads painted blue that give off a childish, alien innocence with their antics. It’s all backed up with some interesting special effects and very loud, almost metal rock original music that has the whole theatre vibrating for most of the performance.

In my Christmas column last year, I wrote about my family's Christmas Eve menu and how it changed when I began hosting duties. I shared the recipes for Decadent Hot Chocolate and Spiced Apple Cider. I also mentioned one other item on the menu called sfingi. This week, I describe what it is and share the recipe.

Last March my Teacher's Perspective column

In 1986, a small group of Christians came together in Hollister.

In order to graduate high school, freshmen students must be successful in their English 9, Biology and Algebra 1 classes. However, the Sobrato Counseling Office has found that there are a large amount of students, who, in their freshmen year, are already in danger of not graduating due to low grades in these three courses. As they began to consider options to help these students along a path of success, they looked beyond traditional tutoring and calls home to parents and arrived at what they christened the “Academic Triathlon.”

Discovering she was diagnosed with terminal cancer with only two

Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, as were his parents and all his disciples. The earliest version of The New Testament says that when gentiles (non-Jewish people) were allowed to join the church without following Jewish rituals and laws, it was a watershed moment for the new faith.