Meeting Preview: Water distict weighs funding for ‘urban area’ plan
The San Benito County Water District Board of Directors is scheduled to hold a special meeting Thursday.
Dedicating Pinnacles as a park: Historic moment draws hundreds
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar said the National Park Service is striving to become a place that is more inclusive and the redesignation ceremony Monday surely reflected that effort.
Police investigate if arson suspect linked to recent cases
The Hollister Police Department on Saturday arrested 33-year-old Hollister resident Jason W. Spears on four counts of arson after neighbors reported him trying to set fire to a local condominium, according to police.
District weighs repairs after Gabilan Hills library fire
Hollister school officials are scrambling to make repairs following a fire earlier this month to part of the library at Gabilan Hills Elementary School.
Court Preview: Diaz faces sentencing in cemetery slaying
Several relatively prominent cases are in court Thursday. That is when Jorge Diaz, who accepted a plea deal in a homicide case, is scheduled for a sentencing. The Diaz sentence hearing is set for 9 a.m. Thursday in courtroom 101 at the San Benito County Courthouse.
Adopt Licorice
Licorice is a black beauty with faint tabby markings and a subtle orange/brown topcoat. She loves to play with everyone, and her favorite toys are little balls of fluff, dangly things, and toy mice. In her mind, a kitty can never have enough mice. She also like to cuddle, but only after play time.
Legislation introduced capping severance pay for superintendents
Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) today introduced Assembly Bill 280, which places a three-month cap on the severance pay of a school district superintendent. Currently, when a superintendent’s contract of employment is terminated, he or she is eligible for a severance pay of up to 18 times their monthly salary, which can potentially be very costly.
Gavilan offers writing workshops for veterans
Gavilan College is offering writing workshops by veterans, for veterans from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursdays in room SS203 on campus, located at 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd. in Gilroy.
Imprinting – it’s not a good thing
Every summer and fall the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center in Morgan Hill receives calls from well-meaning people who have taken in an orphaned baby animal (often a bird) in the spring, and raised it in their home. The animal is now grown up and the caller wants to know where and how it should be released.
Fairview 4-H works in rose garden
On Feb. 2, 11 members of Fairview 4-H, along with parent volunteers, trimmed the rose buses at Dunne Park. The local 4-H club takes on the task of cutting back the branches of the rose bushes during the winter months so that the bushes will have plenty of blooms when spring comes.
