Local Scene: Academic honors, achievements
Gavilan graduate awarded $20K scholarship
Gavilan College graduate Josephine Torres, who will be transferring to UC Santa Cruz in the fall, has been awarded that institution’s Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Scholarship for 2023.
Torres is a biology major whose career goal is to help people...
Letter: Hospital board plays charades
Charades can be a fun way to occupy an after-dinner-evening with friends or family. Pantomiming, gesturing, pretending and making hilarious faces can dissolve into hilarity and satisfaction but is never taken seriously.
What should not be like a game of charades is a democratic board...
Hollister High softball continues historic march with NorCal win; Whitney up next in semis
Even the best teams don’t play their “A” game every time they step onto the field. But more often than not, they still find a way to win.
So it was for the Hollister High softball team, who admittedly wasn’t at its sharpest in a...
Hollister High baseball sees season end in CIF NorCals
In the end, the Hollister High baseball team was undone by a combination of top-tier competition, injuries and off the field adversity.
The Haybalers saw their season end in a 5-4 loss to Franklin of Elk Grove in a CIF NorCal Regional Division I quarterfinal...
Hollister High seniors earn State Seal of Biliteracy
Ninety-four seniors in the Hollister High School Class of 2023 have earned the California State Seal of Biliteracy, demonstrating that they attained proficiency in English and at least one other language: either Spanish, French or American Sign Language, according to school district staff.
This is...
Hollister High softball makes history by winning CCS Open Division championship
Public school versus private school. Third seed against first seed. A 10-2 defeat at their last meeting.
By almost every indicator, the Hollister High softball team (27-3) was the underdog going into its Central Coast Section Open Division championship game against St. Francis (26-3) May...
Hollister man dies in Highway 129 crash
A Hollister man died Sunday evening in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 129.
California Highway Patrol officer Israel Murillo said emergency crews were dispatched to a report of the crash just past 7:30pm on Highway 129 east of Murphy Road in Watsonville. A 54-year-old Hollister...
Leaders from nationwide visit R.O. Hardin to see literacy program
R.O. Hardin Elementary School in early May hosted school leaders from throughout the nation who came to witness an innovative early literacy program and learn how to replicate its success.
The Hollister School District site May 4 hosted educational leaders who included state superintendents, governors...
Locals discuss possibility of new mobile food ordinance in Hollister
The ongoing fight for a mobile food scene in Hollister continues as more than 30 people attended an informal meeting to discuss a new ordinance in the works that will allow vendors to sell food throughout the city.
A good cross section of both established...
Hollister High baseball on doorstep of history
To win the program’s first Central Coast Section championship, the Hollister High baseball team will have to go through the team that can lay claim as the section’s best for the better part of a decade: Valley Christian.
The Haybalers wouldn’t have it any other...