San Benito eligible for electric vehicle charger rebates
A $30 million incentive project is underway to help businesses, nonprofits, public agencies and tribes fund the installation of electric vehicle chargers in disadvantaged and low-income communities across the state.
San Benito is on the list of 30 counties where such parties are eligible for...
Fill your senses at Foxhollow Herb Farm
Among the rolling hills of farmland just off Best Road at the
Local Scene: DUI checkpoint, academic honors
Police to conduct DUI checkpoint
The Hollister Police Department will be conducting a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint starting at 6pm Sept. 16 at a location within the city limits. The checkpoint will last until 2am Sept. 17, according to Hollister Police.
Officers at the checkpoint...
Local Scene: South Valley Symphony performs Dec. 14
Local land trusts receive grant funding
Two area land trusts received more than $200,000 worth of grants from the California Council of Land Trusts’ Capacity Building Grant Program.
The Amah Mutsun Land Trust, based in Santa Cruz County, received $105,500 for stewarding ancestral lands, says a...
Gilroy Garlic Festival returns
The Gilroy Garlic Festival returned Friday after a six-year absence, drawing thousands of visitors from across the country to the South County Grove at Gilroy Gardens for three days of garlicky food, live entertainment and community fundraising.
The festival, which ran July 25-27, marked its...
Premiere Cinemas in Hollister gets a bathroom break
It's as clear as clean water: Hollister movie-goers are just fine holding off until home before they use the restroom.
The sweet spot in town
Growing up in Hollister, Margot Tankersley had a knack for making sweets.
“I started making lollipops in the eighth-grade,” she says.
And by the time she was a student at Boise State University, she realized her candymaking skills could thrill more than just the select few—so...
