Business

Dave Dumont has been attached to the piano since he was 8. The Illinois native graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1976, with a major in music education and piano. He has had gigs around the country, including backing musicians at the old...

Shannon Imbronone started designing custom made apparel in her own garage a little more than five years ago.  The business slowly started picking up and by the time she knew it, Savage Designs needed a bigger spot and moved to their current location at 1700...

Raul Escareno is tired of people having to travel outside of Hollister to dine at other restaurants, especially because the excuse is there’s nothing to eat in town. The longtime owner of Mangia Italian Kitchen is aware that he might be throwing a rock at...

Valerie Silva had always dreamed about writing a children’s book, and for most of her life, that’s exactly what it was—a dream.  However, that dream became reality earlier this year when Silva and her friend Hillary Craig collaborated on the self-published ABC Life in the...

Amazon is expected to be the tenant of a proposed delivery center at the intersection of Highway 152 and Camino Arroyo, adding to a sizable investment the online retail and web services giant is making in Gilroy and Hollister. According to conceptual plans submitted to...

La Sabrosa Fine Mexican Cuisine owner Maria Hernandiz has pretty much seen it all when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic.  She went from shutting down the entire restaurant on three separate occasions, to now being extremely busy since the state announced that restaurants can...

Mangia Italian Kitchen owner Raul Escareno got a late dinner rush on Tuesday evening, churning out orders of meat ravioli and his famous chile verde pasta.  It was the first time in months that he had guests pile into his dining room as San Benito...

As a Michelin-starred chef, Jarad Gallagher has received his fair share of media coverage, for good reason. Before opening the Smoke Point BBQ and Provisions in San Juan Bautista in November, Gallagher had an eight-year run as the executive chef at Chez TJ in...

Mary Risavi moved from Colorado to Santa Cruz in 2008 with the intention of staying in the area for “only a couple of years.” Thirteen years later, Risavi is still here, having settled in Hollister. The owner of Wise Goat Organics, a small-food business...

Officials are mum on the tenant planned for a large-scale delivery center under construction along San Felipe Road in northern Hollister, but signs point to it being Amazon, the dominant online business and cloud computing company. Grading work recently got underway on the 25.5-acre property...