School board appoints Perez to represent Trustee Area 1
The Hollister School District Board of Education on Jan. 4 appointed Jose A. Perez, Jr., to fill a vacancy on the five-member body, according to an announcement from HSD.
A vacancy on the board occurred as of Dec. 8 due to a lack of candidates...
San Benito County launches Mobile Crisis Response Team
The San Benito County Behavioral Health Department recently announced the launch of its new community Mobile Crisis Response program, which aims to bring crisis management and support to residents wherever they are.
The phone number for the Mobile Crisis Response Team is 831.902.2911. The line...
CDFW names 2023 Wildlife Officer of the Year
Santa Clara County Wildlife Officer Laura Decker was named 2023 Wildlife Officer of the Year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week.
Decker, who is currently based in the CDFW Gilroy office, began her career with CDFW in 2018. In her short...
Council spars over recent travel
Hollister City Council members are at odds again as an investigation was launched to determine if one member’s trip across the country was authorized.
Hollister Council member Honor Spencer said during the June 15 meeting that she attended the National League of Cities conference in...
San Benito gains grant for wildfire prevention
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas this week announced millions of dollars in new Cal Fire grant funding for programs including the San Benito Fire Safe Council that plan and implement wildfire prevention efforts.
The San Benito Fire Safe Council and Community Foundation for San Benito...
Hospital board to appeal bankruptcy decision
The San Benito Health Care District announced that it is planning to appeal the U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s ruling that denied the district’s Chapter 9 filing for Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital.
Northern District Judge Stephen L. Johnson in a March 21 ruling sided with the California...
Police seek to ID owner of dog found injured near Hollister
Authorities are trying to find the owner of a dog that was found abandoned with injuries off the side of a highway near Hollister.
On May 5, officers from Hollister Police Animal Care and Services and the San Benito County Sheriff’s Office responded to a...
Lee Subdivision proposes 141 new homes
The San Benito County Board of Supervisors will start 2023 by deciding whether to approve the 141-unit Lee Subdivision residential project in southeast Hollister.
It is the first new housing proposal in unincorporated San Benito County that the board has considered in several years, and...
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Hagins named to president’s list
Anne Hagins, of Hollister, was among the more than 800 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa named to the president's list for the 2021 fall semester. Hagins is a Fourth Year student in Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and...
Event raises awareness of importance of Juristac
It’s springtime, and orange poppies, purple lupine and red paintbrush flowers color the hillsides at Juristac, a pristine hillside landscape in northern San Benito County and Southern Santa Clara County that is the site of a proposal for an open pit mining project.
In honor...
