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The 180 fourth- through eighth-grade students who arrived to the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 13 at Hollister School District’s Accelerated Achievement Academy brought their excitement and anticipation with them to the Buena Vista Drive campus. Different from the local district’s other nine...

A new bell schedule for students, a new grading system for teachers and a slew of upgraded facilities for everyone on campus have San Benito High School Principal Adrian Ramirez preparing for a seamless start to the 2018-19 school year. For the fourth-year principal going...

Hollister police arrested a man who tried to dispose of a loaded handgun while he ran from an officer, according to authorities. The suspect was ultimately booked on suspicion of multiple weapons and drug offenses. About 3:37am Aug. 1, Hollister Police Officer Juan Guevara was...

San Benito County stood up to cancer on Friday, Aug. 3 and Saturday, Aug. 4 during the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life—an opportunity to raise money for the American Cancer Society while celebrating loved ones who lost their battle to cancer. The 20-hour...

After months of delays, the $26 million, 80-unit Vista Del Oro apartment complex should be finished by October, providing subsidized housing for San Benito farmworkers. The apartments, ranging from one to three bedrooms, will be restricted to low-income farmworkers. The Pacific Companies, which also is...

The closure of Nash Road at San Benito High School is set to be completed this October. School and county officials had originally hoped the road could close to weekday traffic in August, providing a bypass around the school to divert traffic from the center...

The streets of Hollister were alive with blooms of color Saturday, July 28, when more than 400 participants gathered for the first Hollister Wild Color Run. The run, a spectacular 5K coordinated by the City of Hollister Recreation Department, was a lively event that began...

With the filing period for candidates set to close Aug. 10, voters likely will have choices in all of the races for Hollister City Council and San Benito County Board of Supervisors. As of July 31, several candidates had filed to run for mayor and...

A new grading system—one that calls for students to receive three separate marks per class in the categories of academics, citizenship and work habits—will be expanded for the 2018-19 school year at San Benito High School. It likely will mean more work for teachers, but...

With the Hollister City Council out on vacation in July, further developments in the development of a local cannabis industry have been stalled. When council members return, they likely will hear a request from former Hollister mayor and president of Pinnacle Consulting Victor Gomez that...