South Valley nonprofit marks 15 years saving people and dogs
He’d been waiting years for a service dog—years marked by crippling anxiety, years of waitlists, years of prices he couldn’t hope to pay. Running out of options, the Marine veteran called a local dog trainer named Mary Cortani and made a desperate plea.
That call...
From the valley to the hills
Ernie Salle, of Milpitas, and Ryan Finney, of Menlo Park, are pictured getting ready to ride their dirt bikes at Hollister Hills State Recreational Vehicle Area on Cienega Road on Jan. 13. Finney’s dog, Buddy, is also pictured. The two friends have been riding...
Hemp is San Benito County’s hot crop
The 2018 Farm Bill made it legal to grow commercial hemp in the U.S. for the first time in half a century, but fewer than half of California’s counties allow the crop. San Benito is one of them.
Growers are now storming San Benito and...
Orgs donate 200 laptops to families in Hollister, Gilroy
The Monterey Peninsula Foundation teamed up with AT&T and Human-I-T to donate 200 laptop computers to the Youth Alliance and their families in Hollister on March 9.
The giveaway was part of the AT&T Connected Learning initiative, which aims to help address the digital divide...
