News

The first edition of Hollister’s quarterly newsletter came out last week and the glossy publication included three brief items for upcoming events, along with a slew of shorter announcements and city advertisements.

May 29

Rachel Santos has been named a finalist for the 7th Annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards. A ceremony will take place June 19 in New York.

A police chase on Hollister’s west side ended Friday night when the suspect crashed a motorcycle into a parked vehicle, according to police.

Jujube is a 3-year-old pit bull who is very sweet and friendly and also knows commands and tricks. He is available for adoption at the San Martin Animal Shelter. Interested? Call (408) 686-3900.  

You will love this production if you are a Green Day fan, and you will likely take it as a feast of Green Day music. If you are not a fan, you will be exposed to the wild and unrepressed music of the ’90s and have an experience to wonder about.

Assemblyman Luis Alejo, author of a bill hitting the Assembly floor this week proposing to increase the state’s minimum wage, said the legislation would assist lower-income families in keeping up with escalating costs and that it would dissuade municipalities from passing local rates.

If you have any pictures or video from the fourth annual Hollister Airshow on Saturday or Sunday, we would like to publish them online and possibly in the newspaper.

Crews from the Gilroy and Morgan Hill Fire Departments, South Santa Clara Fire District and Calfire responded to a roughly 40-acre vegetation fire at Frazier Lake Road and Bloomfield Avenue in Gilroy this afternoon. At around 3:30 p.m. firefighters were working on "cutting off the head," or containing the head of the fire, according to an employee from Treehaven station on Hecker Pass Road.