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Hollister School District trustees directed staff to put air conditioning on the priority list for Measure M bond money—even if something else came off—after parents and educators complained about stifling classroom temperatures.

All the  world’s a stage—literally—for the actors and colorfully dressed visitors of the annual Northern California Renaissance Faire held at Casa De Fruta.

No matter where supervisors end up locating a permanent homeless shelter in San Benito County, it is clear that government officials initially pushed through the consideration with little interest in getting input from residents near the previously chosen Southside Road location.

Hollister resident Shannon Maguire hopes to raise a pig for the San Benito County Fair that will cash in at $70,000, a sum that could pay several years of college tuition.

Nearly eight months after the county board chose a Southside Road location for a permanent homeless shelter in San Benito County, supervisors Tuesday reversed course and opted for a different site along Flynn Road.

Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area invites residents to its 40th Anniversary Celebration. It is set to start at 9 a.m. and last until 3:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Lower Ranch Day Use Area, according to the recreation area.

In his lifetime, T.S. Hawkins lived in a log cabin, moved from Missouri to California in a covered wagon and helped found the town of Hollister. He also wrote a book.

What if, before county supervisors took their vote to ban outdoor medical marijuana cultivation, they all got high? This column explores the possibility.

San Benito High School District trustees heard a report on the location of campus supervisors and their job duties during their meeting last week.

San Benito County is set to have one of the strictest anti-marijuana laws in the state after the board's 3-2 approval Tuesday supporting a ban against all outdoor medical pot grows in unincorporated areas.