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San Benito County supervisors are set to hear from local opponents of a major solar project perhaps one last time Tuesday.

The San Benito County Office of Education has been giving the San Benito High School District increased impact fees from developers before trustees had a public hearing or approved a mandatory study required to justify the new rates.

Hollister officials appear ready to buy body cameras for police officers in the coming fiscal year.

The downtown Hollister discovery of a single female Asian citrus psyllid pest—which can carry a disease that devastates citrus trees—resulted in a quarantine within a five-mile radius of the original finding.

San Benito County residents looking for the sweet taste of summer in the form of tangy cherries, sweet strawberries and local honey need look no further than their own downtown.

The long rolls of turf to the left of this house are about to become the green lawn of Hollister resident Kathy Provost’s dreams. But the grass is not the kind Provost thought she would cultivate on the family’s country property.

Alex Pena lives along the San Benito River bed with his “so-called other half,” as he put it. He and other homeless residents have pitched tents in a spot along the riverbed entering Hollister off San Juan Road that has become increasingly visible to traffic on the west-side gateway.

San Benito High School trustees accepted an independent audit of their finances at their regular meeting this week in which the firm highlighted more than $1 million that was not on the books.

Even though they signed it in closing documents on their properties, about 60 percent of private owners living right near utility gas lines don’t even know it.

A single female insect known to be a pest to citrus plants was found in Hollister, and now the hunt is on to find out if there are more.