Politics

More sign damage has been reported in the Measure J campaign, this time with obscene graffiti found on a prominent sign along San Benito Street.

District 3 council candidates Karson Klauer and Robert Scattini are on opposite ends of a spectrum as it pertains to experience, but they shared a common motivation to run for the seat in that they both care deeply about the local community.

Congressman Sam Farr on Tuesday will be joined by local officials in announcing a grant award to make repairs at the Hollister Municipal Airport, according to a statement from Farr's office.

Paso Robles' Ed Hazard believes the public and politicians haven't given enough attention to rights of royalty and mineral rights owners in local-level debates like the one in San Benito County over Measure J. Kathy Spencer from the Bitterwater area has another perspective and worries her family members could lose control of their property because an oil company owns mineral rights on 440 acres of their land.

San Benito County currently has no provider of non-emergency ambulance services, and it became a concern for county officials as they renewed the contract with American Medical Response for 911 responses.

City officials were weighing use of $100,000 to clean up a downtown property destroyed in a March fire and claim the owner of the building had been living in an illegally converted portion of the site at the time of the blaze.

County supervisors Tuesday OK'd a resolution setting up procedures for potential exemptions in Measure J if the initiative passes next month.

Mail-in ballots are headed to local mailboxes in the next week. The nearly 18,000 voters using the vote-by-mail system should receive their ballots in the next seven days, according to Angela Curro, assistant county clerk-recorder-registrar of voters, in a presentation to county supervisors Tuesday.

The county’s Community Services & Workforce Development agency is hosting a televised “virtual job fair” Oct 15, according to a department head announcement at Tuesday’s board of supervisors meeting.

Hollister council members want a better understanding of how airshow organizers plan to use $10,000 proposed for additional spending to promote the event.