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The Family History Center is a place where local residents can feel like royalty.

When Tres Pinos cattle rancher Allan Renz goes riding into the pasture to check his herd, it’s warmer than usual. Recent rains saturate the earth. There’s grass growing.

Fire Chief Mike O’Connor told county board members plans are moving ahead on a Fire Station No. 3 near the airport, while a supervisor in the same discussion criticized lacking communication from the city during a recent investigation of the chief.

The latest, available storm totals for San Benito County show the highest measurement for the area at 3.76 inches of rain in the past two days.

The big storm that hit San Benito County Thursday afternoon caused small scale flooding, mudslides and winds that knocked down trees in Aromas, San Juan Bautista and Hollister.

County supervisors Tuesday agreed to extend a moratorium against cutting mature trees here for another 10 months and 15 days, but they instructed staff officials to prepare a permanent tree ordinance with a goal of approval within six months.

Assemblyman Luis Alejo has proposed a bill aiming to ban the use of "Redskins" as a mascot in California public schools.

Crystals, fossils and strands of fine jewelry were mostly in their places in the San Juan Bautista-based Tops Rock Shop but a few framed pictures were askew following two earthquakes Wednesday night.

The five-acre plot of land off Buena Vista Road in Hollister appears an unlikely place for second chances. However, for the four-legged residents of Pet Friends, it’s just that.

There are not many places where one can text an order to a baker and arrive a few hours later to pick up a steaming loaf of fresh bread.