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Last year’s Hollister baseball team sparkled in the Central Coast Section Division III playoffs. The eighth-seeded Balers shocked top-seeded Aptos 11-0 and mauled fifth-seeded Pioneer 13-0 on the way to a 3-2 loss in the title game to No. 2 seeded Christopher. It was Hollister’s...

This year, San Benito County is focused on repaving some of the most traveled commuter routes with a focus on safety.  Of course, the list of rural San Benito County roads needing repairs is seemingly endless due to decades of deferred improvements. The vast majority...

Police are asking the public for help identifying a burglar who broke into a San Benito County home and lifted stolen firearms and other items, says a notice from the sheriff’s office. About 11am Aug. 2, sheriff’s deputies responded to a “bold daytime burglary” in...

Last year’s Hollister boys soccer team pieced together a phenomenal post-season run to the school’s first-ever Central Coast Section championship. This year’s team is young but after a middling pre-season campaign, the Balers have gelled and are roaring in competitive league play.  Here comes Hollister...

With outside visitors observing R.O. Hardin Elementary School classrooms March 7, kindergarten students rotated with about half receiving small-group instruction and others using a computer-aided literacy program.  “Is … it … your … birthday?” one instructor pronounced to three students while having them read along...

Sunday, June 23 dawned another glorious day in San Benito County.  In the south, the Saddle Horse Show (a LEGACY of the wide-open ranches of historical times) was gearing up for its annual display of traditional horsemanship. To the north, tree branches were bending under...

Measure X, San Benito Health Care District's initiative to approve the sale of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital to Michigan-based Insight Health, is on its way to being passed, according to the latest election results With 40.57% of votes cast, the "Yes" vote is leading with...

We can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because when our fields of lettuce, onions and peppers are green they must look like the green isle of Ireland. We must carefully view the spoken brogue of those in public office because not all want to preserve our...

A Davis man had been on a violent crime spree for several days before leading the region’s law enforcement agencies to Hollister and back to San Jose—exchanging gunfire with police along the way—where he was killed by officers, according to authorities.  Just before 4pm Jan....

Union Road construction continues  Demolition and new paving activities have been completed on the Union Road Rehabilitation project, which is still on track to be completed by the end of June, according to San Benito County officials.  Over the next several weeks, crews will focus on...