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San Benito High School welcomed 19 new teachers to the staff for the 2019-20 school year. The teachers worked together during a weeklong orientation Aug. 5-9, in which they received professional development on lesson planning, teaching strategies, classroom management and learned about the school’s...

The Hollister City Council meetings are becoming increasingly contentious—and loud. Its most recent meeting Aug.19 devolved into a series of shouting matches as councilmembers went head to head over several seemingly minor agenda items.  The meeting went on for five hours as council members waded into...

El Teatro Campesino’s annual holiday productions in Old Mission San Juan Bautista have “come to an abrupt end,” the theater company announced Aug. 9. “After nearly a half-century, the awesome and inspiring tradition of live, community-based sacral theater inside the mission has been terminated by...

San Benito High School is hiring. Visit www.edjoin.org and search "San Benito High School" for more details and to apply for the following positions: American Sign Language teacher for the 2019-20 school yearAnticipated Spanish teacher for the 2019-20 school yearSpeech and language therapist for the...

The San Benito Health Foundation celebrated the completion of an 18-month renovation project of its Community Health Center Aug. 14 with an open house that drew more than 100 community members, politicians and others to the Hollister clinic. The federal funded center at 351 Felice...

Robbie Scattini was loyal to friends, loving to his family, caring to strangers and forever devoted to his community. Robert David Scattini passed away on Aug. 4, 2019 at age 80. Born on Feb. 21, 1939 in San Jose, Robbie grew up alongside four...

Hollister police last week arrested a man who allegedly entered a local business, battered several employees and attempted to steal items.

Thousands of people descended on a Ferguson Road ranch Aug. 7-11 to check out barrel racing, bull riding, bucking broncos and other Western-themed activities during the second annual Gilroy Rodeo. The rodeo made its debut in 2018, more than 60 years after Gilroy’s last major...

The 2020 mayoral field in Hollister already has two candidates: current Mayor Ignacio Velazquez and first-term District 3 council member Honor Spencer. Spencer announced at the Aug. 5 city council meeting that she would be running for mayor in March 2020, and Velazquez confirmed that...

Another military training ordnance was found in the Hollister Airport dog park on Aug. 9.  Construction at the park unearthed the ordnance, but this wasn’t the first time a WWII-era training device had been found there. In October 2018 another undetonated device was found at...