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San Benito County planning commissioners Wednesday supported the Del Webb planned community at San Juan Oaks and sent the consideration to supervisors.

The San Juan Oaks Del Webb project deserves our support. I have seen and visited numerous senor citizen projects in the United States. As a New Urban advocate, I have read a great deal of research and I understand how these communities have evolved in design and amenities. I recently visited a Del Webb project here in California somewhat similar to San Juan Oaks. I am convinced that this Del Webb project is at a par or better than most other senior developments.

Del Webb and San Juan Oaks Golf Club are taking final plans for an active-adult community, along with some market-rate homes, before planning commissioners Wednesday.

Allowing religious organizations to use a downtown public signpost for event advertisements—like a church men’s conference promotion currently displayed—means the City of Hollister must provide the same access for other types of groups “that could be quite controversial,” argued the co-founder of the national Freedom From Religion Foundation.

The California Department of Education released the first results of a new form of state testing Wednesday, which showed most students in San Benito County—like those across the state—did not meet the new standards.

Thirteen years after an attorney and an anonymous group calling itself Los Valientes filed a lawsuit against then-Supervisor Richard Scagliotti, outside legal fees in the case have reached $585,121, according to records obtained by the Free Lance.

Judge Harry Tobias on Thursday said he had to read over some materials yet before making a decision in the lawsuit against the Panoche Valley Solar Project, but did set a time to make the ruling.

There’s a party going on downtown on Fifth Street. It’s a paint party, and it’s happening the first Friday each month at the San Benito County Arts Council’s ARTspace.

When 14-year-old Adam Shapiro of Pacific Grove came to Hollister recently, his goal was to fly where raptors hang out as they glide effortlessly above the rolling hills around the town known more for bikers than pilots—and to do it solo.

The bicycle that 11-year-old Joshua Rodriguez was riding when hit by a county transit bus while crossing Memorial Drive was not equipped with "brakes that were operational," according to a statement released by the Hollister Police Department Friday afternoon.