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The orange-red turkey trills and stretches her long neck up to take a look at Tres Pinos resident Paul Hain. 

Before the county board OK'd placing Measure J on the ballot, supervisors had the option of delaying the process to conduct an economic analysis but chose to bypass that choice and send the proposal to voters. Without a county economic report to precede the November ballot decision – whether to ban hydraulic fracturing, cyclic steaming and acidizing as extraction techniques along with all petroleum activities in rural residential zones near the two cities – the local farm bureau went ahead and conducted a study of its own.

A semi truck heading north on U.S. 101 overturned around 8:15 a.m. Thursday morning while making the turn onto the Highway 25 on-ramp in front of the Garlic Shoppe just south of Gilroy.

A San Benito County sergeant helped to save a woman using CPR while at a conference in Visalia, according to announcement from the sheriff's office.

Hollister police located more than 100 pounds of explosives that it then had destroyed at the airport with the help of an outside agency.

A car ran the curb in a shopping center on Tres Pinos Road in Hollister and collided with a building.

The Nov. 4 election day is less than two months away but campaigners haven’t put up signs supporting Measure M, an item on the upcoming ballot that proposes a general obligation facilities bond of $28.5 million for the Hollister School District.

Hollister police reported finding hazardous materials during a burglary response and warned residents to stay away in the following announcement:

Hollister Councilman Ray Friend on Monday requested that city staff members draft a resolution proposing to oppose Measure J – the petroleum initiative on the November ballot – while the mayor said he would support such a discussion on one condition.