Opinion

Panelists answered the following: Do you like the school district’s decision to expand the Hollister Dual Language Academy to Kindergarten through eighth grade at Gabilan Hills?

Anzar High School has displayed enormous success as it pertains to students going to college. Like any other school environment, though, it isn’t free of challenges.

Panelists answered the following: Do you feel safer driving on U.S. 101 near the Red Barn area with the construction that is well under way there?

This is in reference to two of your recent articles in the Hollister Free Lance.

The deadline is Feb. 25 to submit comments to the state for its Strategic Highway Safety Plan.

In response to Bill Corcoran, western director for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, Guest View: “Panoche Valley is wrong for solar project” I would offer the following: Mr. Corcoran neglected to inform readers that Save Panoche Valley, the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society and the Sierra Club (collectively Save Panoche Valley) lost a legal appeal from a trial court’s order denying their petition for writ of mandate opposing the PV2 Energy Solar Project. Save Panoche Valley challenged San Benito County’s certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) regarding the proposed solar power development to which the Appellate Court disagreed.

California is at the center of a multi-state measles outbreak. It presumably started when an infected person (who has not been identified) visited Disneyland Resort Theme Parks in December 2014. About 40 people who visited or worked at the park became infected, and then people who were around those ill people, in doctor’s offices, schools and airplanes also became infected with this highly contagious virus. As of Feb. 6, over 100 cases in seven states had been reported as part of this outbreak. There are no cases in San Benito County.