With the retirement of longtime Gavilan College Superintendent Steve Kinsella set for June, San Benito County trustees expect to remember the man for a legacy of good financial leadership.
The core of San Benito Street in downtown Hollister is set for a holiday season makeover—with plans to change the street layout from four lanes to two lanes—but some businesses are upset about the timing of planned work in the middle of the busy shopping season.
A new Gavilan College campus in south San Jose came a couple of steps closer to becoming a reality Oct. 13 as the governing body unanimously approved more than $4.5 million in contracts to begin site grading, soil inspection and the purchase of five modular buildings.
As local veterans groups prepared for the big Hollister motorcycle rally weekend in early July, they had a dirty little surprise crawl up on them—rats.
The county board chairwoman opted to make two controversial appointments herself—for a marijuana cultivation ad hoc committee—instead of allowing the board to vote on them.