Schools

Students are safe and a lockdown is over at Rancho San Justo School, after Hollister Police investigated a report of suspicious activity on campus Friday morning. The Hollister Police Department sent out a notice at 11:42am Oct. 15 alerting the public that the middle school,...

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...

As parent Armando Gonzalez listened to the spelling word issued to his 11-year-old daughter Evie at the Feb. 6 championship round of the 2019 San Benito County Office of Education Spelling Bee, he spelled it out in his head. Listening to Evie spell the same...

Hollister High School Assistant Principal Kevin Medeiros, a 2007 Haybaler alumnus, has been promoted as the school’s new principal.  Medeiros was a mathematics teacher at Hollister High for seven years before he became assistant principal, a position he held for the current school year, according...

When Jim Caffiero empties his office at San Benito High School at the end of this year, he will be taking along memories of 27 years working with local students. Caffiero, being honored at the Mexican American Committee for Education scholarship banquet Saturday, will retire after nearly three decades of working with high school students.

Hundreds of Gavilan College students, faculty and supporters, past and present, gathered at the college’s Gilroy campus Sept. 7 to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Guests of the sold-out gala took a nostalgic stroll down Sycamore Lane, where stations were themed to each decade featuring...

By Jill Cowan, The New York Times Almost exactly a year ago, on March 7, 2020, officials in the Elk Grove Unified School District—Northern California’s largest—announced that schools would close for a week in response to concerns that the novel, unknown coronavirus could spread like...

The skies were clear, the sunset brilliant, the bleachers were standing-room-only in a sea of red and the new Andy Hardin Stadium at San Benito High School in Hollister was ready for some football. The team, playing for the first time on new turf...

Friday night’s contest against North Salinas—a 60-30 San Benito High win—was the last regular-season football game at Andy Hardin Stadium—and possibly ever—if the Haybalers don’t end up hosting a playoff game this season. The stadium will still host soccer events this winter, along with track...

A plan to reopen and begin the new school year at San Benito High School is in the works but the Board of Trustees must first give the approval.  The board and school administration met July 14 in a special meeting to discuss the potential...