Sacred Heart students take on trash duty in river
A small crew of Sacred Heart Parish School students, their parents and two teachers gathered to do a San Benito river bed clean up Saturday. San Benito High School chemistry teacher Mike Carroll, his grandson Riley, Sacred Heart science teacher Jim Ostdick and the other volunteers removed 1,000 pounds of trash from the river bed.
SBHS student shares story of blindness on Nicklelodeon
San Benito High School sophomore Santiago Hernandez shared his experience of going through life without sight on an episode of Nick News, a news segment that airs on Nicklelodeon and on its website.
Three arrested for stolen firearm
Hollister police officers on Friday arrested two men and a juvenile female for possession of a loaded stolen handgun found in a vehicle at 5 p.m. According to a police statement, officers arrested Marco Mendoza, 27, and Omar Ortega-Hernandez, 20, who were both found with open alcohol containers in the vehicle. A 17-year-old female juvenile was also in the car.
CHP club volunteered time to pick up trash on highway
The El Camino Club based in Gilroy that consists of California Highway Patrol officers and supervisors assigned to the Hollister-Gilroy office recently picked up trash on the shoulders of Airline Highway.
Hollister district may reinstate wrestling with PTO funds
The Hollister School District Board of Trustees is set to considering accepting about $2,000 from the Rancho San Justo Parent Teacher Organization to reinstate a wrestling team for middle school students.
Meeting Preview: City to weigh revised rules for RV, boat parking
With regulations on boats and recreational vehicles scattered throughout the city code, council members are set to consider streamlining those rules at their Monday meeting.
Diaz accepts plea deal in cemetery slaying, faces 6 years
The homeless suspect from the stabbing homicide at a Hollister cemetery in March 2011 has accepted a plea deal on a lesser charge and faces a likely sentence of six years in prison, according to court records.
Updated: House fire started in garage ‘man cave’
The Sunday morning house fire in Hollister started in a garage converted for recreational use, the fire chief said.
Gavilan’s ‘communication’ awarded
Gavilan College’s communications studies program will receive the 2013 Model Communication Program Award from the Western States Communication Association Feb. 18, at a luncheon in Reno, Nev.
