County works to let Casa de Fruta sign stay
Revision of ordinance designed to keep longstanding billboard in place
Michelle Montez completes course
Michelle Montez of Intero Real Estate Services, Gilroy, has earned Real Estate’s Premier new home sales certification: Certified New Home Specialist™. Montez completed the real estate industry’s most comprehensive new home sales course to earn her national certification. With this certification, she joins a group dedicated to providing the highest level of professionalism and service to builders and new home buyers.
‘Shop local’ taken seriously at San Benito Bene
On Small Business Saturday, as shoppers perused the small shops and boutiques in downtown Hollister, one in particular, San Benito Bene, was the one-stop shop for everything San Benito County. Since 2011 owner Kathina Szeto has worked to showcase the best that local artists...
A little pasta, a lotta fun at Little Uvas
Praise be to the gods of pizza and pasta, and wine. Fridays and Saturdays have already become legend at Little Uvas and DeRose Vineyards on Fitzgerald Avenue in San Martin, where the hospitality flows like wine, and the woodfired pizza oven turns out pies...
Local Scene: Hazel Hawkins public forum Jan. 23
Hazel Hawkins public forum
A public forum on Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital has been rescheduled for 5:30-7pm Jan. 23, at Veterans Memorial Building, 649 San Benito Street in Hollister. Hospital officials will make a presentation and answer questions from the audience.
Attendees are asked to submit...
Pinnacles visitors bring money to the community
   A new National Park Service report shows that more than 246,000 visitors in 2010 spent $4.8 million in Pinnacles National Monument and in communities near the park. The spending supported 58 jobs in the local area.
Edward Jones ranks highest in satisfaction
For the sixth year out of the past eight, financial-services firm Edward Jones ranks highest in investor satisfaction with full-service brokerage firms, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study. The study measures overall investor satisfaction with full-service investment firms based on seven factors: investment advisor; investment performance; account information; account offerings; commissions and fees; website and problem resolution. Edward Jones also received high marks in the "Account Information" category, an important factor in the study. Edward Jones' overall score climbed 15 points over last year, highest among the 14 largest firms rated, as well as 28 points above the industry average. The 2012 Full-Service Investor Satisfaction Study is based on responses from 4,378 investors who primarily invest with one of the 14 firms included in the study. The study was fielded in February 2012.
New spa and salon offers a broad range of treatments, tranquility
Paradiso Spa & Salon recently opened and held a grand opening at the 750 San Benito St. location.
Bond ladder can lift you above interest-rate fog
If you're a fixed-income investor, you'll eventually have to













