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When music director Brant Ruggles was notified in January by Gavilan College that his choir program was being discontinued, he didn’t take it personally - and, in fact, he saw it as a golden opportunity.

Tres Pinos resident Grace Tobias will be representing the Calfornia Rodeo Salinas for the next year after winning the title of Miss California Rodeo Salinas at last month’s event.

The Hollister Redevelopment Successor Agency – or city council – has recommend to its oversight board representing local taxing entities that they restructure loans made by the former Hollister RDA to the Honda Powerhouse and Cain/Renz property at 102 San Benito St.

As of late July, the Hollister Redevelopment Agency Successor Agency – or the city – had distributed a total of $12.7 million to taxing entities as a result of the RDA’s dissolution.

On Saturday morning, 50 students from Hollister received a back-to-school shopping spree at Target.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held an open house Friday at the Hollister Community Center for the proposed California Foothills Legacy Area easement program. The timing of recent open houses coincides with the release in July of the proposal's draft environmental assessment.

Police have identified the victim in Thursday's homicide as Andres Guzman, 19, of Hollister.

At National Night Out on Tuesday, two local residents were honored as peace advocates in San Benito County. Assemblyman Luis Alejo selected Dolores Villalon and Robert Scattini to receive the 2013 California Peace Award along with three other residents or groups from his assembly district.

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 69 presented Christina Muirhead with a $1,000 scholarship to use toward her studies at Cabrillo College in the fall. The Anzar High School graduate was honored July 18 at San Benito's American Legion Auxiliary meeting at the Veterans Memorial Building.