Everyone can do more to make construction zone safer
It's one of those stories everyone in town can relate to because pretty much everyone in San Benito County at some point has to drive on Highway 25 through the narrow, two-lane construction zone at the intersection of San Felipe Road.
Pinnacle editorial: Health inspection fee hike spells hypocrisy
The recent revelation that the county has gradually spiked health inspection fees for booths at the farmers market is a stark reminder of hypocrisy in local government. While legally abiding businesses have played by the rules and forked over more of their money year after year – supposedly to offset inspection costs and keep the public safe – authorities have ignored enforcement of illegal street vendors.
Speeding scofflaws beware, police are ready
The California Highway Patrol is donating 15 radar units to the
Cheers for World War II planes and vets; jeers to expensive gas
Thumbs up: To the "Wings of Freedom" tour that brought an authentic World War II B-17 Flying Fortress and a B-24 Liberator to the Hollister Municipal Airport this week. Residents were able to hop in the cockpits, target the machine guns and inspect the equipment that the World War II generation used to beat back the Nazi threat. That generation, which did so much for our country and the world, is fading quickly into the history books, and the planes were a fitting tribute to their achievements during Veterans Memorial Month.
The new courthouse should stay in an accessible location
San Benito County is going to get a new courthouse, and an advisory team has been formed to decide where to put it.
Sell the Hollister Motorcycle Rally – not the T-shirts
I had an uncle who was a gambler. Once, he secretly went to Las




