Letter: More development could damage our water system
An only child and an only grandchild my summers were spent at my grandparent’s avocado and lemon ranch in Carpinteria. It was the late ‘50s and early ‘60s when the California water projects were in full swing and my grandfather, Cliffford “Brad” Bradbury, a...
Letters to the editor: Measure your landscape irrigation needs
No more gigantic warehouses
Morgan Hill City Council (MHCC) passed an ordinance banning distribution centers. Then they approved Redwood Tech at 101 (RT@101), with over 10 football fields of warehouse space with loading docks. A project of equal size, Butterfield Technology Park, was also approved,...
Letter to the editor: Keep trees alive
As we turn our focus to the local effects of the drought, I have seen many browning lawns. One of the things that I am also seeing is stressed and dying trees. In many cases the only water available to trees in the landscape...
Letter: Vaccines become more crucial as variant spreads
What is the “Delta variant" you have been hearing so much about in the news? All living organisms have the capacity to mutate for survival and some more than others. Mutation is one of the key biologic mechanisms used by microorganisms for their survival.
Sars-CoV-2...
Letter: Virus thrives on ignorance
I have a sign on the back window of my truck that says “stupidity is curable.” After reading Greg Thomas’s letter (Downtown propaganda is ‘newspeak’) in the July 16 Morgan Hill Times, maybe I am wrong.
He and others like him are the reason that...
Letter to the editor: Downtown propaganda is ‘newspeak’
A recent visit to a downtown coffee shop occasioned an encounter with a poster by Choose Morgan Hill that declared, “Stand Together By Standing 6 Ft Apart.” This is a deeply disturbing example of cognitively dissonant propaganda, to say nothing of a textbook example...
Letter to the editor: Inspect wells during drought
California, like much of the West, is facing a year of extreme drought which is causing some issues for residential water wells across the state. Water wells are a reliable, affordable, and safe source of water for over a million California residents and when...
Letter: City has wasted millions on downtown MH
Over a decade of waste and millions of dollars spent by the City of Morgan Hill for Downtown....
The City of Morgan Hill and elected officials continue pushing a biased, agenda-based ideology onto unwilling, skeptical residents and business owners with their “Visioning” of Downtown Morgan...
Letters: RV parks, supporting the troops
Teen has ‘burning desire’ to compete
I would like to express my sincere thanks to Emanuel Lee for writing the article “The Comeback Kid” (May 14 edition).
Sofia is our granddaughter. We are especially proud of her regarding her resiliency and tenacious progress for recovery. She...
Letter: No more RV parks in San Martin
New and expanded RV parks are not what South County needs or wants near our homes and in open space. In the unincorporated areas of South County, most of the areas are zoned Rural Residential (RR), which means you may build a new home...
