Council weighs community choice energy
Hollister council members are considering a regional community choice energy project.
County’s jail project has $5 million shortfall
County supervisors are expected Feb. 7 to receive a report regarding the possibility of a $5 million shortfall on the jail-expansion project.
Mayor attempted to have city manager fired over spills
Hollister Mayor Ignacio Velazquez in a September meeting pushed to have other council members fire City Manager Bill Avera over two wastewater spills last summer into the San Benito River bed, according to a source familiar with the consideration.
Records: City manager report downplays wastewater spills
A Hollister staff report from City Manager Bill Avera addressed two 2016 wastewater spills by stressing that less than 39,000 gallons of effluent reached the San Benito River bed.
Latest on storms: Repairs to cost ‘millions’
County supervisors Tuesday received an update on local flooding related to recent rainfall, with an emergency services official telling the board that both rain and a failing levee caused damage set to cost “millions” of dollars.
County board to hear about flooding
County supervisors Tuesday morning will receive an updated report on flooding related to Pacheco Creek.
County: Pacheco Creek flooding causes evacuations
The San Benito County Office of Emergency Services Friday afternoon issued an evacuation for the Lovers Lane area.
Panetta on Trump speech: ‘rhetoric echoing his divisive campaign’
Congressman Jimmy Panetta on Friday released a statement on President Donald Trump’s inauguration and speech.
Report on spills: City violated federal water act, failed to update plan
A state water board report on Hollister’s two summer sewage spills notes how the city potentially violated the federal Clean Water Act and 10 state violations.
Water board official explains process with sewage spills
A Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board official Thursday laid out the process ahead in the investigation of Hollister for two sewage spills totaling nearly a million gallons into the local river bed.
