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When Hollister's Haylie Stelling takes to the saddle, she plays country music on her iPhone, tucks it into her cowboy boot and rides toward a dream. The teen wants to be the first woman to compete in team roping at a professional level while also competing in barrel racing, the only rodeo event open to women at a professional level.

I have been rethinking Nevada. It took a number of years for me to see the special beauty of the desert. But much of the Great Basin, which comprises most of Nevada, still seemed like a wasteland that held no allure. The state, at least the portion of it one sees from Interstate 80, is a succession of drab brown mountain ranges dotted with dull gray-green sagebrush. It is a landscape I was always anxious to cross as quickly as possible.

When the Mexican-American Committee on Education hosts its 44th annual Cinco de Mayo Scholarship Banquet this year, the organization will celebrate a major success story because Sergio Martinez – the man who received the first scholarship more than 40 years ago – is the lead singer of the Tejano and Country recording group taking the stage.  

San Benito High School District’s new Superintendent John Perales is only three weeks on the job. He already routinely walks the halls of his new site to see how things roll in more than 40 classrooms as he sets a vision for the coming year.

Kathina Szeto, owner of San Benito Bene and the founder/president of the Olive Festival, started her business in downtown Hollister more than two years ago in response to a discussion with the Hollister Downtown Association about what she could do to benefit the region, which was hard hit by the economic recession.

Catch a “trash fashion show” and an array of family-themed green activities at the upcoming eighth annual Summit for the Planet Walk-a-thon and Earth Day Celebration Saturday, April 26. Hosted by Mount Madonna School, this free public event combines a 5K fundraising walk-a-thon supporting local nonprofits with an eco-carnival, solar car races, music, wildlife, green shopping, learning expo and organic foods.

Our local communities are full of walking opportunities for pets. All it takes is a collar or harness, working leash and a dog with enough training to not trip or injure you.

The San Benito Rising group submitted more than 4,000 signatures to the elections office Tuesday on Earth Day for a ballot proposal to ban fracking and limit oil extraction in the county.

The San Benito County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau on Monday held a ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of the new Cienega Road bypass. The $1 million construction project on Cienega Road eliminates two dogleg turns that were close to 90-degree angles. The bypass connects Cienega Road at the first dogleg with Hospital Road. That new stretch is about 3,500 feet, Nazemi said. The project started in mid-January. Don Chapin Co. had the $994,000 contract. Funding came from impact fees, specifically those designated for the Montebello Estates subdivision.

Hollister police are investigating a shooting on Easter in downtown while seeking four suspects.