Tag: san benito county
Sales tax for roads headed to June ballot
Supervisors on Tuesday put their support behind a proposed half-cent sales tax now headed for the June ballot.
San Benito County’s public health officer resigns
Dr. Anju Goel resigned from her position as public health officer for San Benito County and finished her last day of employment this week, according to a top administrator.
News Analysis: Resource Recovery Park is just parked
After a total expense of more than $287,000 from the Landfill-Solid Waste Fund and months of serious, but ultimately unnecessary, angst among the neighbors, San Benito County’s much ballyhooed Resource Recovery Park exists in name only.
Kosmicki: Mad driver on Hollister roads
It is A.D. 2022 in Hollister, Calif., three months into the apocalypse.
County takes steps toward library fees for builders
County supervisors took "baby steps" Tuesday toward establishing new library impact fees charged to developers of new homes.
Guest View: Gavilan President Kinsella responds to critics
In 2004, the voters of the Gavilan Joint Community College District passed Measure E, providing funds to renovate and expand the Gilroy campus and purchase land for future campuses at the northern and southern ends of the district. The work on the main campus was completed just this year. Land was purchased in both Coyote Valley and San Benito County for future campuses, and habitat mitigation is almost complete at both sites. Phase one of the Coyote Valley development is now under construction.
Group paying $684 for Measure J legal costs
San Benito Rising, the grassroots group of local residents that led the effort to pass Measure J in 2014, is reimbursing the county the full $684 cost for legal expenses incurred fighting related litigation.
Lee: Age is never a good excuse
A 7:13-mile pace for 13.1 miles. That was my performance in the half-marathon of the Jed Smith Ultra Endurance Classic in Sacramento on Feb. 6—on my 39th birthday no less. My time of 1 hour, 34 minutes, 46 seconds was a personal-record (PR) and good for seventh place overall.
Spring Grove poetry event: An escape from routine
Spring Grove student Natasha Blankenship walked to the front of the school auditorium, took command of the room, and articulated each consonant and vowel of the 288-word poem, “If.”
Local funeral home websites affected by broader outage
A Pennsylvania-based company that hosts funeral-home websites had its systems breached, causing online obituary outages for the two local mortuaries.
