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The three-year legal dispute between the San Benito County Water District and McAlpine Lake over water pumping rates went to court last week. And if the district succeeds in cutting off the lake’s underground supply, the recreation facility’s owner, Randall McAlpine, says it could force him to close the lake to the public.

A San Juan Bautista man accepted a plea deal for practicing medicine without a license and assault with a deadly weapon, and received a penalty encompassing 285 days of time served along with felony probation, according to court records.

The county coroner has identified a 23-year-old Honduran citizen whose body was found near San Juan Bautista after a suspected homicide.

San Juan Bautista merchants such as Victoria Hansen have been on edge lately. That’s because a series of early-morning burglaries has businesses and residents concerned about the Mission town’s security.

The San Benito County Arts Council is partnering with local high schools to present a national poetry recitation contest.

A string of “15 to 20” commercial burglaries over the past three months has San Juan Bautista’s residents alarmed and its officials looking for ways to enhance the law enforcement presence in town.

If you're ever walking around San Juan Bautista on a Saturday and feel a bit out of place, there’s an explanation for it.

A cancer-surviving cat and a woman who lived through melanoma had a special interaction at Old Mission San Juan Bautista a few years ago that helped the parishioner think differently about her own scars.

Since the news always carries such a negative tone, this column will end 2015 with a bad and positive spin on some of the biggest local stories from the past year.

About three months into the school year, the students and parents of San Juan School are settling under the leadership of a permanent principal: Jorge Martinez.