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The Sept. 20 letter from Salinas Valley Hospital hit Hazel Hawkins with a thud. The larger hospital was pulling out of talks about shared services that held out a prospect of new financial stability for the Hollister hospital. That same day, however, Hazel Hawkins learned...

The Chicken Festival had a soft return to San Juan Bautista this month. Families converged downtown Sept 16 to celebrate the chicken with live music, dancing and a chicken cook-off. The event, which had about a 10-year respite, was revived with a fowl-crowing contest featuring...

Community members who would like to share their ideas about the most important qualities for the next superintendent of  Hollister School District can do so in a new online survey posted on the hesd.org website. The district’s Board of Trustees hired Hazard Young Attea Associates...

Nearly 100 San Benito High School employees are alumni, according to a recent survey conducted by the school district’s Human Resources Department. In total, 96 current high school staff graduated from the school within the past half-century, from counseling clerk Hermie Ybarra and biology teacher...

The negotiating period between Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital and Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital has closed with the two healthcare systems deciding against going forward with a formal partnership. In a joint statement late Friday, the two hospitals said they had agreed to continue to cooperate...

San Benito High School’s new physical education and athletic multi-use field was officially dedicated with a Sept. 10 ribbon-cutting ceremony prior to the girls’ varsity field hockey match against Gilroy. The 177,000-square-foot turf facility on the southwest side of campus was made possible by funds...

If you want to take advantage of San Benito County’s low sales tax, you might want to act before the New Year. So far there’s been no organized opposition to the proposed 1 percent increase of the county’s percent sales tax to 8.25 percent, which...

Nearly 10,000 people were transported to the past when the Northern California Renaissance Faire kicked off its six-weekend extravaganza on Saturday, Sept. 15. Visitors to Casa de Fruta, about 14 miles east of Gilroy and 12 miles north of Hollister on Highway 152, discovered medieval...

For soldiers in Army green, unless they're career military professionals, there's life after the military. There's life after football too. Gavilan College two-way starter Branden Garcia is a seven-year Army veteran, and now that he’s out of the service, he’s working on his post-military dreams:...

Police are asking the public for help identifying two young men who held up a Hollister convenience store at gunpoint last week in an incident where a clerk narrowly dodged a bullet. About 1:20am Sept. 15, an unknown male entered the Quik Stop store at...