New Year signals kick-off for 2012 campaigns
The start of the New Year also signaled the official kick-off for some local offices as well.
Hollister council could OK new fire chief Monday
Hollister council members are set to consider a contract for Bob Martin Del Campo as the next permanent fire chief.
Caballero on budget: ‘mixed bag of pain and relief’
Assembly Member Anna Caballero, the Salinas Democrat who represents San Benito County, issued the following statement in response to the passage of the state budget:
Seismic trenching at fire station delayed after sand hit
The project to replace Fire Station No. 1 downtown is under way
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.
Appeals court rules against environmental groups in solar case
The Sixth District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday in favor of PV2 Energy and the county in the lawsuit from Save Panoche Valley, the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society over the 399-megawatt solar farm proposed in San Benito County.
Riled by Gavilan, Hollister council broaches other college partners
Hollister council members Monday expressed disappointment at the continued tone from Gavilan College leaders who are reluctant to build an educational center downtown, and broached the possibility of approaching California State, Monterey Bay or another institution about opening a site here.
Exit poll: Cross-section of California picks Obama
A broad cross-section of Californians came together Tuesday to
Supes pursue office expansion at court building
As the construction of the new courthouse continues along Fourth Street, with estimated completion by the end of the year, San Benito County supervisors discussed how to allot the space that will be emptied in the existing courthouse.
