Back to Class
While my school days are well behind me, this time of the year always leaves me with feelings of hope and trepidation.
As the Free Lance took a tour of San Benito High School with Superintendent Shawn Tennenbaum earlier this week, I saw students arrive...
400 Block: Let’s do it right!
The Hollister City Council should go back to the drawing board on the 400 block. Dueling petition drives in a divided community are not a good way to make strategic planning decisions and revitalize a downtown.
To make downtown the place it should be requires...
Above all else, hope
Last Friday while deciding on this issue’s Question of the Week, I ran into a bit of difficulty. I wanted to ask our readers how cancer impacted them to coincide with reporter Nick Preciado’s coverage of the Relay for Life fundraiser held last weekend...
Question of the Week: Water
Winter storms brought much needed water to the parched state earlier this year, but with a growing population and industry needs, water conservation is still important in California. How do you conserve water in San Benito County? Are you concerned about water quality where...
Water, water everywhere
This week’s reporting by Nick Preciado brought to mind the passage by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” The winter storms that raged...
Rough riding
I must have clocked nearly two hundred miles this week driving between my home in north Monterey County and the expansive roads of San Benito County.
I don't mind usually, the passing scenery of golden hills and agricultural fields that look like they were created...
Community Board: Incentivize new hotels
We like the idea for reduction of impact fees on any decent hotel proposals coming the way of Hollister officials.
Hollister council members earlier this month authorized deferment of impact fees on a new Marriott Hotel until the end of 2018. The deferment of impact...
