Video: Four candidates for Hollister mayor interview with the editorial board
Watch these extended interviews with the four candidates squaring off in Hollister's first mayoral race.
Whooooo’s ready for Halloween?
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.
Articulate Solutions celebrates expansion
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.
School drill offers practice for the eventual ‘Big One’
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.
Fire union endorses Velazquez for mayor
The Hollister Firefighters Association Local 3395 gave its endorsement to Velazquez. The union wrote in a statement provided this week:
Deeper discussion offered on proposed oil exploration rules
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.
Three seek SBHS seat; two running unopposed
Editor's note: Look for a story on the Hollister School District races Tuesday.
District hires firm to find ‘deficiencies’ in charter school petition
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.
Homicide suspect possibly spotted in Gilroy
This week, police arrested several people for narcotics related crimes, petty theft, and are on the lookout for a San Jose homicide suspect. Here are a few events worth noting:
Scrapbook Oct. 22-26, 2012
ENGAGEMENT: Lucatero/Garcia: Laura Lucatero and Gabriel Castillo Garcia are engaged to be married.

















