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Kawahara Nurseries, which is based in Morgan Hill, is looking to open a year-round wholesale agricultural facility on Anzar Road in San Benito County. The planning commission on June 16 approved Kawahara Nurseries’ application for an agricultural facility use permit on a 104-acre property that...

A consistent uptick of Covid-19 cases in San Benito County, the Delta variant’s growing presence and a slowing vaccination rate here have raised serious concerns about our progress fighting this deadly pandemic.  This new reality we face is daunting, but vaccines remain the only solution...

Pour Decisions Taproom co-owners Joe Nguyen, Jon Cuilla and Nick Donaldson celebrated their one-year anniversary on July 17 by throwing a bash at the taproom on San Benito Street in Hollister.    The brew crew introduced "To the Moon,” a beer specially made in collaboration with...

The Hollister School District went through some major changes during the Covid-19 pandemic, including the introduction of distance education.  This year’s summer period was also a tad bit different as the district for the first time allowed the general student population to participate in summer...

Gavilan College is looking to require all students and employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as in-person classes resume in the near future. At its first public meeting under the same roof since March 2020, the college’s Board of Trustees on July 13 voted unanimously...

The Hollister Police Department reported that it had a busy weekend with calls that involved gun possession by juveniles and a brawl that ended in gunfire. The police said in a press release issued Monday that a person was arrested on July 15 for resisting...

For Josh Jensen, famed founder of Calera Winery in Hollister, life after 40 years of being at the forefront of the exciting and fast-moving wine business has been quite an adjustment. He’s been named the 2007 Winemaker of the Year by the San Francisco...

Health officers of four Central Coast counties—including San Benito—issued a joint statement again recommending that residents wear masks indoors at public places, regardless of vaccination status “out of an abundance of caution,” says the statement. The recommendation comes as local reports of the highly infectious...

A group of local residents may soon begin collecting signatures to place a recall election of Hollister Mayor Ignacio Velazquez on an upcoming ballot. On July 8, recall proponent Celeste Toledo-Bocanegra gained approval for her third submission of a Notice of Intention to Circulate Recall...

Alvin Harrison has two residences—one in Hollister and another in Northridge in southern California—but he also spends a huge chunk of his time nowadays at Rock Boxing gym in Salinas.  The former track and field Olympian has launched an energy drink and taken up a...