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After more than six months of negotiating, Hollister School District officials and the California School Employees Association chapter 625, which represents classified staff, came to an agreement on an employee contract that included concessions from both sides. The Hollister School Board ratified the contract at a special meeting Feb. 7.

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San Benito County officials announced this week that new areas of the county may be one step closer to reopening. The California Department of Public Health issued a press release May 25 stating that a statewide reopening of places of worship for religious services and...

The San Benito County Office of Education honored its Classified and Certificated Employees of the Year in an online ceremony May 26. This year’s awards were particularly well deserved as the awardees overcame unprecedented challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and the shift to...

In addition to the new, tentative agreement between the San

The South Valley Fleurs Garden Club awarded grant funding to the first of two San Benito County schools for campus gardens last week.

Krystal Lomanto, County Superintendent of Schools hosted the county’s first Literacy Summit on Jan. 25 at the Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Hollister.  SBCOE Director of Curriculum & Instruction and Equity & Access, Mai Cruz, coordinated the event, which featured nationally renowned speaker and educator,...

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At San Benito High School, students say they bleed the school colors, Baler red, but lately they’ve been gushing green.