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As vineyard manager at the 7,000-acre Paicines Ranch in San Benito County, Kelly Mulville has a rather significant task: he’s trying to practice organic, regenerative farming on 25 acres of vines while surrounded by hundreds of acres of vineyards being conventionally farmed.  “Our underlying philosophy...

A Hollister resident was recently convicted of felony child sexual abuse and sentenced to more than 30 years in state prison, according to authorities.  The Hollister Police Department sent out a press release this week detailing the allegations, investigation and court proceedings. The investigation centered...

Re: Resendiz booted from committees by council majority I am fairly sure that we all remember our grade school days and I hope with affection because those days reminded me of the City Council meeting I attended and of which you reported. Let me explain. The...

Authorities in two counties are investigating a San Benito County Sheriff’s deputy who is accused of providing a semiautomatic firearm to a teen in Gilroy, according to Sheriff Eric Taylor.  Deputy Ryan Miller allegedly loaned an AR15 rifle and ammunition to a 17-year-old high school...

The City of Hollister is working on an inclusionary housing ordinance that could require future residential developers to make up to 20% of their projects affordable under state guidelines.  A draft ordinance, produced under the council’s previous direction, was presented at the May 1 council...

Hollister Police arrested a motorist on suspicion of multiple weapons violations following a traffic stop on Feb. 1.  About 2:47pm, a Hollister Police officer stopped a vehicle in the area of the 1300 block of Black Forest Drive. The vehicle had visible mechanical violations including...

We Americans love classics. We love classic movies. We love classic cars. We love classic music from which we invented jazz and blues. We love Aristotle’s inductive and deducting thinking enabling us to invent computers and rockets. Like Marie Currie’s persistent search for truth...

The Hollister Police Department will conduct a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint on Sunday night, starting at 6pm and continuing until 1:30am Dec. 15. The checkpoint will take place at an undisclosed location within the city limits.  In recent years, California has seen an increase...

The San Benito Health Care District announced Aug. 13 that Insight Health is stepping away from negotiations on a proposed lease-to-purchase agreement for Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, citing unprecedented uncertainty stemming from the recently signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).  The federal legislation will...

A report of an active shooter at Hollister High School was unfounded Thursday afternoon, police said.  The Hollister Police Department sent out a press release at 12:58pm May 18, stating that officers responded to the campus to investigate an “apparent false active shooter alert.” Police...