Referendum petition protests new Hollister growth boundaries
A group of San Benito County residents submitted more than 3,500 signatures Jan. 21 for a referendum petition that aims to reverse an end-of-the-year city council decision to expand Hollister’s sphere of influence for potential future development.
More than a dozen local residents—including representatives of...
District 4 candidates share views on tourism, fracking
Daniel Recht contended boosting the tourism industry wouldn’t save the county from its woes. Victor Gomez referred to Recht’s sentiment about tourism as “negative” and called for using more hotel-tax revenue to attract visitors. Jerry Muenzer, meanwhile, touted his backing of a tourism business district to fund the efforts.
Rally set to protest oil wells near Pinnacles National Park
San Benito Rising, a local environmental group, will be holding a rally called "Draw The Line: Don't Frack the Pinnacles" at the east entrance of Pinnacles National Park on Sept. 21 starting at 9:30 a.m.
New law offers incentives for building affordable
The San Benito County Board of Supervisors has approved a new
Community support, funding among top themes at library forum
Community leaders this week discussed possible solutions to revamp the library system in San Benito County at a forum, where local officials on a panel committed their support to finding more revenue streams and updating the 60-year old library.
Hollister officials share goals with budget in limbo
Hollister council members Monday took on a goal of devising goals. And by the end of the special gathering, city officials set another goal to come back at the next regular meeting with more goals.
Water Cooler: Do you support reviving a sanctioned biker rally?
Richard Place: “I would like to see another motorcycle rally happen here. The biggest problem, of course, is being able to handle the law enforcement for the event. I don’t believe we need the over enforcement that we had during the last few events but with both our departments short handed from budget cuts, it would certainly be a problem just to plan and run the event. If we can go back to the old plan of putting all the bikes on San Benito Street and the vendors on the side street it would be more appealing to the public and better for crowd control. Maybe we can sell the old tee shirts to pay for the extra officers.”
Details set for courthouse groundbreaking
Details have been set for the Feb. 28 groundbreaking ceremony for the new San Benito County Courthouse.
