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A couple thousand connoisseurs in search of a delicate chardonnay and others out for an adventurous Saturday afternoon in the country were not disappointed at the third annual San Benito Olive Festival.  

The Aromas-San Juan Unified School District’s top revenue source comes from average daily attendance but student enrollment has been declining, which means the district has been getting less money in recent years.

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.

Gavilan College President Steve Kinsella announced plans to retire near the end of June 2016, according to an email from the college board chairman.

Calfire has announced the Cienega Fire is now 100 percent contained at 670 acres.

A firefighter was injured while battling the Cienega Fire near Hollister—seeking medical treatment for a knee ailment—while weather conditions have been helpful for crews continuing to fight the blaze southeast of Hollister, a Calfire spokesman said.

When 14 people marched in cadence onto the stage at the Veterans Memorial Building in Hollister on Thursday night, they were recruits. After they took the oath of office from Assistant City Clerk Christine Black and received their badges from family members, Fire Chief Bob Martin Del Campo was the first to introduce them to the audience as “firefighters.”

In 1999, Barbara Rever and Jerry Ginsburg decided to pick olives from the trees on their property and their neighbors as well (they had permission of course). Out of that came a bounty of 800 bottles of olive oil, and life hasn’t been the same since for the married couple of 40 years.

Since witnessing my first hypnotism show 13 years ago at the San Benito County Fair, I’ve wondered the same question many others have pondered: Is it possibly real, or do the participants merely go along with a staged act?

This winter will be the last in which the Homeless Coalition of San Benito County runs the seasonal homeless shelter, the nonprofit group’s chairwoman announced Tuesday.