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Despite having to make lineup changes to account for the numerous injuries sustained throughout the season, the San Benito High girls soccer team has maintained a high level of play. The Haybalers entered the week with a 3-1-1 record in the Monterey Bay League’s Gabilan Division, tied for first place with Christopher and Gilroy.

Hollister council members are considering a regional community choice energy project.

Coming off the program’s 10th Central Coast Section Division I championship, the San Benito High softball team enters the upcoming season with title aspirations once again. The Haybalers received a huge addition in the off-season in sophomore catcher Amber Rodriguez, who has verbally committed to play for Weber State University.

It is heartbreaking to see so many San Benito County families suffering from the floods that recently wreaked havoc on the northern part of this community, near Lovers Lane and close to where San Felipe Road meets Shore Road.

My worst nightmare growing up in a shabby, two-story Milwaukee condominium complex had me walking down a small staircase leading to our basement. Through an open space under the railing, someone or something would grab me and pull me in toward our nearby crawl space. I know—horrifying—and it reoccurred regularly.

I recently came across a envelope full of old photos of my mom when she was a child. A relative had sent them to me after she passed away, and I guess I was not ready to look at them at the time. Now I see in the photos a beautiful child posing in front of a quaint south Boston brownstone, alongside relatives or friends whose faces I do not recognize. I remember my Irish family members as so much older than the folks pictured there. They were all characters who loved to sip whiskey and sing songs of the old country, but you would never know that looking at their stern, stiff expressions in the photos. I wonder what they were doing and saying just before the photos were taken, and I wish their names were listed on the backs. It would help me distinguish between my endless relatives named Mary.

County supervisors are expected Feb. 7 to receive a report regarding the possibility of a $5 million shortfall on the jail-expansion project.

Donna Lee Scalmanini, oldest daughter of Louie and Pauline Raiola was born on the 30th of May 1943. Sister to Jannet, Dennis and Louise; Donna graduated from Andrew Hill High School in San Jose, in 1962.  She married Michael Scalmanini in 1962 in San Jose, CA. They raised 3 sons: Michael, Frank and Kevin Scalmanini of Hollister. Grandchildren include Michael and Jordan (Michael), Mark (Kevin) and Ryan and Tyler (Frank) and Great Granddaughter Amilia Scalmanini (Michael).

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.