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While Ignacio Velazquez spent the most money in his campaign among four candidates for Hollister mayor through the latest filing period, he expended about $7,000 more than he received in donations and accrued unpaid bills totaling $8,818, according to campaign finance statements filed late last week.

Watch these extended interviews with the four candidates squaring off in Hollister's first mayoral race.

No horror movie is complete without the eerie and spine-tingling hoo-hoo-hoooo and silhouette of an owl perched on an old, gnarly oak tree and staring with huge yellow eyes at wayward trespassers unwarily walking into a haunted house.

On Sept. 13, Katherine Filice and her team at Articulate Solutions, 65 Fifth St., celebrated the completion of their office expansion and remodel by hosting an open house and ribbon-cutting. The team at Articulate Solutions Inc. has helped businesses develop award-winning communications and design since 1991 and can be reached at 408-842-2275.

Sunnyslope Elementary School officials and local law enforcement agencies went through the steps they would take if a major earthquake were to hit the school as part of the Great California Shake Out on Thursday.

San Benito County residents will have a chance to continue a dialogue with county supervisors about oil and gas wells at a public workshop at 6 p.m. Thursday in the supervisors chambers.

Editor's note: Look for a story on the Hollister School District races Tuesday.

The Hollister School District hired a law firm to seek out deficiencies in the petition submitted for a charter school here – a move delaying the final board decision and signaling the first roadblock in an effort to open a campus here.