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The 33rd District Agricultural Association invites people to submit entries for the 91st Annual San Benito County Fair, while those entries are due this Friday.

Local chapters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion are hosting a Sept. 11 ceremony this year.

A 38-year-old Paicines man died in a solo car crash over the weekend, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The Hollister council this week appointed Shari Stevenson to fill a brief vacancy in the District 2 seat on the council.

When the Hollister School District faced a severe financial crisis in the 2010-11 budget, trustees cut the stipends for afterschool sports and the YMCA offered fee-based programming.

Kinship Wine & Food Tasting event

San Benito High School may break ground on a new physical education building that was at least four years in the planning as early as after winter break.

Hollister School District trustees have approved a $3,100 contract for mold remediation at the district's oldest campus, R.O. Hardin Elementary School.

From a small 2.5-acre plot of land used for organic raspberries grew one of the largest employers in San Benito County: Earthbound Farm. With more than 12,000 employees and 200 associated farms, Earthbound dwarfs the next largest business in the area, Hazel Hawkins Medical Center, by 2,400 percent, according to California labor market information,

HONORS: Nina Singh: Morgan Hill high school student Nina Singh is working on cutting-edge evolutionary biology research at UCLA this summer. At UCLA, Singh will work with Dr. Pamela Yeh to research the evolution of drug resistance in bacteria. They are interested in understanding how we can use drug combinations to slow down the evolution of increased antibiotic resistance and to decrease the likelihood of future evolution of resistance.