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Kangi-e ‘A Gathering of Joy’

Jay Shinseki Watsonville
The month of July and August is what Buddhists call Obon season. For many, the Obon is a Buddhist festival of food, cultural arts, displays and folk dancing. The religious aspect of Obon comes from the sutra called the Ullambana Sutra. The sutra is...

Youth offenders must be housed locally

letter to the editor pajaronian
As part of the Governor’s “commitment to providing more treatment and rehabilitative services for youth closer to home” under SB 823, the state is closing the juvenile prison in Stockton (DJJ). This means that Santa Cruz County will soon be tasked with housing and...

‘Missing’

Rev. Robin Mathews-Johnson
Memo from Rev. Mathews-Johnson I don’t know about you, but there’ve been times in my life when I thought something was missing. You know what I mean. Like when you’re young and single and things are going along fine, except you long for something else,...

Letters to the Editor, July 20: Fair poetry deadline is soon

Letters to the Editor, July 20, 2017

Letters to the Editor, Oct. 31: Tommy Gugale’s family thanks community

Letters to the Editor, Oct. 31, 2017

Movie Review: Schumer, Hawn combo saves so-so 'Snatched'

Directed by Jonathan Levine (“Warm Bodies,” “50/50”) and written by Katie Dippold (“Ghostbusters”), “Snatched” does absolutely nothing new or special — or better than good, for that matter — but it does what a comedy should: make you laugh.

Sandy Lydon: How Jack London continues to build fires

These chilly nights have kick-started my personal fire-building season. Wood fires are the only source of heat in our home, so a fire in a woodstove is now a daily necessity. I first learned how to build a fire from my paternal grandmother who lived...

Movie Review: ‘Hereditary’ is a scare fest with depth

“Hereditary” is definitely one of the more terrifying movies I’ve seen in recent years, but it doesn’t throw away characters and relationships in favor of jump scares. It does the exact opposite, making the tension between the family the real reason behind the dense layer of horror that never dissipates.

Letters to the Editor, July 26, 2019

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Letters to the Editor, April 24-30

Keeping our eye on the Clock My father, an Air Force fighter pilot, and our family, were stationed in Yokohama Japan in 1947 as part...