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The booming voice of Chuck Obeso-Bradley echoed along San Benito Street as he kicked off a night of marching bands, cars transporting waving local dignitaries, and an array of entrants festooned in twinkling Christmas lights with smiling grownups and children.

Every year for an entire month, we rekindle our seasonal obsession with thousands of Christmas songs and convince ourselves we’re happy because Josh Grobin’s illuminating voice leaves us no other choice.

Someone has agreed to donate money to the local healthcare district so it can open a diabetes center in Hollister, the healthcare district president confirmed to the Free Lance.

Bestselling author Dave Eggers will be stopping in Hollister next month to celebrate the life and writing of his great-great grandfather T.S. Hawkins, the founder of the local hospital. 

It isn’t a big surprise that San Benito High School District officials are broaching the potential for a second facilities bond. That's because the first one approved in 2014 covered about half of the district’s mega-campus “modernization” master plan that includes more than $80 million in projects that could be funded by the bond and general fund—with about $20 million of it slated for sports-related expenses.

Local seniors got a taste of Thanksgiving early Tuesday at the annual Senior Thanksgiving Lunch at the Hollister Community Center.

If Hollister council members hand out a hundred grand in taxpayers’ money to their favorite nonprofit groups, they might as well class up the selection process and assess potential recipients through a series of tests played out on every local do-gooder’s home court—the dining room and lounge at San Juan Oaks Golf Club.

San Juan Bautista council members Tuesday learned that their city code includes prohibitions against growth and delivery of medical marijuana, and they upheld the ordinance while continuing to also ban dispensaries.

A landowner has sued the county over a policy in the newly approved general plan that could prevent the party from developing due to a nearby agricultural industrial facility, according to a lawsuit filed at the San Benito County Courthouse.

A strip mall store in Hollister where people played electronic gaming machines and won prizes shuttered its doors this weekend shortly after the Free Lance published a story about it Friday evening.