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San Benito County supervisors changed their minds this week, and voted unanimously against giving themselves a 56-percent pay raise. The Board of Supervisors last month had given preliminary approval, on a 4-1 vote, to increase their salaries from $48,000 to $75,000, prompting a public outcry....

For Hollister residents and veterans, Richard Castro and Dolly DeVasier, contributing their time for their country has been at the forefront of their lives. Castro, a retired 18-year Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, is a veteran of both Korea and Vietnam. DeVasier, who served as in...

San Benito County officials approached the Hollister City Council Monday night to ask for $200,000 annually to help maintain the new HOME (Homeless Opportunities Meals and Empowerment) Resource Center. The following day at the San Benito County Board of Supervisors meeting, supervisors approved a one-year...

The San Benito High School District on Tuesday, Nov. 7 held a ceremonial grand opening for the new, 38,380-square-foot Career Technical Education (CTE) building on the south side of campus. The event attracted an estimated 200 guests, including local educators, elected officials, the San...

Local government leaders from Hollister and San Benito County received an update last week on a future Hollister School District site to be built near the Santana Ranch housing development. Hollister School District Director of Facilities John Teliha said the district expects to request proposals...

A large contingent of conservationists kicked off a campaign Nov. 2 to permanently preserve Coyote Valley—which serves as a buffer of open space between Morgan Hill and San Jose—from the threat of future development. Backed by an environmental conservation grant from the Gordon and Betty...

  UPDATE AT 12:28 PM: The Gilroy Police Department has located the missing youth in Gilroy. The Hollister Police Department would like to thank family members, friends, residents and the Gilroy Police Department who assisted in located the missing youth within the last half-hour in Gilroy. No...

Locals raised nearly $6,000 for disaster relief in Mexico and Puerto Rico last weekend at a San Juan Bautista fundraiser organized by El Teatro Campesino performer Noé Montoya and a committee of local community members. “There’s not enough words to thank people for what happened...

Friday night’s contest against North Salinas—a 60-30 San Benito High win—was the last regular-season football game at Andy Hardin Stadium—and possibly ever—if the Haybalers don’t end up hosting a playoff game this season. The stadium will still host soccer events this winter, along with track...

Congressman Jimmy Panetta fielded questions Monday from students at Hollister’s Seventh-Day Adventist Christian School on topics that included education, the death penalty, the legislative process and local agriculture. “I believe that your teachers are fundamental to your education,” Panetta told students. “To me, they are...