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The most visited Sierra playgrounds are alongside mountain passes traversed by the main highways that cross the range. Donner Summit, Echo Summit and Carson Pass are examples that come easily to mind. These areas offer special sights to be sure, but often in close...

Not the easiest varietal to pronounce, so make sure you don’t have a mouth full of spaghetti when you ask someone to pass the Guglielmo Grignolino, a sassy red wine that will spice up any summertime repast, pasta or no. This is an unusual grape...

Already a three-time victor in elections for the San Benito High School District Board of Trustees dating back more than a decade, 66-year-old Steve Delay was setting up for his first trustee area race for the Nov. 6 election. However, with no challengers in Delay’s...

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...