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Hartman makes President’s List Jenna Hartman, of Hollister, was named to the Schreiner University President’s List for the spring semester.   To be eligible for the President's List, full-time students must earn at least a 4.0 grade point average for the term, passing all classes, and have...

Hollister School District nurses’ roles have evolved quite a bit through the years, but even more dramatically since the pandemic’s onset.  These days, the school nurses overseeing health matters for the district spend a lot of time addressing Covid-19 issues while continuing to handle other...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has intervened in a lawsuit challenging San Benito County’s approval of the Betabel Commercial Development on U.S. 101 south of Hollister, Bonta’s office announced this week. The lawsuit was initially filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Amah Mutsun Tribal...

The City of Hollister closed out its summer-long 150th anniversary celebration with a bang Aug. 6, with a full day of festivities. The Saturday celebration started with a parade through the city’s downtown, a time capsule ceremony in front of the Veterans Memorial Building...

The Hollister Fire Department is on scene and has ordered evacuations of homes and businesses on the 1600 Block of Cushman Street, the 200 and 300 block of Tres Pinos Road and all of Slate Avenue.

The Sans Topo Ranch in San Benito County, which has been owned and managed by five generations of the Sans family since 1926, will be preserved in its current state forever after the California Rangeland Trust purchased a conservation easement for the property.  The 4,500-acre...

San Benito County hired Michael Chambless as its new Resource Management Agency director, effective Dec. 26. Chambless most recently served as interim RMA director and as the assistant RMA director for the county. Additionally, he has been the management services director/assistant city manager for the...

The Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital Foundation earlier this month held their annual Donor Recognition celebration at the Inn at Tres Pinos. The foundation honored local community members Bonnie and Alan Clark as their Donors of the Year; the Community Foundation for San Benito County as...

Author and youth advocate Roy Juarez, Jr. will appear for a book signing at Hill’s Bookstore in Hollister Aug. 5. The event is part of Juarez’s “Stories That Move” tour.  Juarez wrote “Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness” in 2018. A...

A convoy of 55 cars and trucks, known as the Farmworkers Caravan, departed from San Jose the morning of Oct. 2, and arrived at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hollister. Their purpose? To deliver thousands of donated food items, emergency supplies and household items...