Board gets flood update with storm brewing
County supervisors received a local flooding report Tuesday during a special meeting.
Health officials to ask for tobacco ban in pharmacies
San Benito County Public Health Department officials are set to ask Hollister council members Monday to ban tobacco sales in local pharmacies, a move that would make it the first city in the Central Coast region to do so.
Revamped crosswalk near SBHS installed before school year
The city Friday reactivated the crosswalk on Nash Road near the high school that had continually malfunctioned.
Updated: Hollister council OKs rally revival, event manager
The city’s signature tradition is ready for a reawakening after five years in hibernation and gained unanimous support from the Hollister council this week.
Hollister council to mull 12.5 percent cut, layoffs
Facing a large audience of concerned employees, a somber
Council to consider development on downtown plot
The highly debated 400 block proposal for buildings on a cornerstone downtown open space is expected to go before council members next week.
In May 2016, Hollister council members unanimously approved going forward in exclusive talks to sell the city’s property in the 400 block...
Deep Divide: Measure J opponents tout potential oil boom
Before the county board OK'd placing Measure J on the ballot, supervisors had the option of delaying the process to conduct an economic analysis but chose to bypass that choice and send the proposal to voters. Without a county economic report to precede the November ballot decision – whether to ban hydraulic fracturing, cyclic steaming and acidizing as extraction techniques along with all petroleum activities in rural residential zones near the two cities – the local farm bureau went ahead and conducted a study of its own.
