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Students at the Accelerated Achievement Academy in Hollister turned reading an article about refugees into a multi-week fundraising effort to help people living in Chad and South Sudan.

Hollister's 11-year-old singing sensation now has a day to call his own.

Hollister council members Monday approved a ban against tobacco sales in local pharmacies. The city is the first in the Central Coast region with such a ban.

Assemblyman Luis Alejo announced the fifth annual Young Assemblymembers Program for high school and first-year college students.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s May revision of the state budget means additional money for classified staff and teachers in the Hollister School District in the form of a one-time lump sum equivalent to 4.5 percent of their earnings.

The Watsonville-based Monte Vista Christian School had more than a dozen San Benito County students participating in this year’s commencement ceremony.

The 68^th Annual State Convention of California State LULAC ended with the adoption of a comprehensive agenda of bringing California State LULAC to the forefront of activity in the areas of civil rights, education, and immigration reform, at the state and national level.

Hollister’s Faith Murray, chief warrant officer 2, is part of the Supply Support Activity in the 11^th Air Defense Artillery Brigade being honored for winning the Department of the Army Supply Excellence Award. The program rewards excellence in supply operations, property accountability and resource management, according to an Army publication, Unit News. The 2002 San Benito High School graduate and her unit are leaving June 10 for an honor in Washington, D.C.

Hollister police arrested a 17-year-old male after a vehicle pursuit that ended in a crash Sunday, according to a statement from the Hollister Police Department.