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City of Hollister and San Benito County officials are looking to find a joint resolution on pot.

A threatening message was found at Marguerite Maze Middle School late Wednesday afternoon, but police and district staff determined it was not a credible threat, according to a press release from the Hollister School District.

There are still basic standards in journalism, and our counterparts at BenitoLink clearly don’t understand this.

District Attorney Candice Hooper at Tuesday's board meeting broached the upcoming parole hearing of local murderer Gustavo Marlow and vowed she will push to "keep him in state prison where he belongs."

There is no specific time frame for a contractor to conduct work downtown that involves reducing the number of lanes from four to two for a key stretch, a public works officials told the Free Lance this week.

A longtime local resident is suspected of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from her parents by using their credit card and writing fraudulent checks on such expenses as rent, utilities and a cash-advance outlet in town, according to a sheriff’s detective who shared details of the case.

In the rolling green hills just outside of Hollister, 16 students in suits, skirts and bow ties waved pink, green and white posters and prepared for a march honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

More than two months after the spring 1988 arrest of an innocent suspect for the Easter weekend murder of 21-year-old Martha Delarosa in the farm town of Hollister, investigators finally found a clue leading to the wrongfully jailed man’s release and an eventual conviction for the actual killer, Gustavo Marlow.

Supervisor Robert Rivas gets to take his turn as county board chairman in 2016.

San Benito County supervisors Tuesday evening are set to choose a new chair and vice chair of the board at a special meeting.