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Mayor Ignacio Velazquez recently switched from using a private email account for city business to exclusively using a city address—in a move that enhances transparency and curtails the official’s discretion on what’s accessible to the public.

Hollister City Council members in a 3-1 vote Tuesday approved allocating $25,000 to establish dog-friendly facilities at Klauer Park.

Hollister police arrested a suspect in a shooting that occurred just outside of Johnny’s Bar & Grill in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, according to a statement from the department.

Flamingo flockers from the Women’s Club of Hollister will be taking over lawns in the Hollister area again this April.

San Benito High School students are eligible to compete for the title of Miss Salinas Valley Fair, according to a press release from the fairgrounds.

A small gray and white potbelly pig got some ride Wednesday morning when she took a spin in the back of a police car.

“This morning about 9 o’clock our patrol officer got a call of a potbelly pig at Versailles and Sunnyslope and they responded over because obviously animal patrol is part of Hollister PD,” explained Hollister Police Chief David Westrick.

Concerned the piggy might become bacon and preferring for the little critter to find its way home, the officer took it to the Hollister Animal Shelter. Westrick posted about the pig online, he said. This included several posts on Twitter with the final one telling followers the pig was safely home.

Luckily, the pig’s owners saw a post on the Animal Shelter’s Facebook page and claimed their pet, who had been busy hamming it up. The pig is home, reported the police chief.

A Gavilan College trustee recommended the board consider a memorandum of understanding with the City of Hollister to run an educational center at the city’s Leatherback property as a discussion topic at a general board meeting, during a facilities development and utilization committee meeting Tuesday.

Students from San Benito County gathered at Ladd Lane Elementary School on Tuesday to take part in the preliminary competition of the 17th annual San Benito County Spelling Bee. The grade school competition featured fourth, fifth and sixth graders.

Southside School District’s Superintendent Eric Johnson swore in a trustee to a vacant board position, but minutes from board meetings show no votes leading up to the appointment decision.

A judge Monday ruled against the county and in favor of a developer that challenged the justification of an “annexation fee” charged to builders since the turn of the century.