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The Free Lance reprinted this excerpt from the T.S. Hawkins book—"Some Recollections of a Busy Life"—with permission from the publisher, McSweeney's.

Since the news always carries such a negative tone, this column will end 2015 with a bad and positive spin on some of the biggest local stories from the past year.

This week’s forecast shows mostly dry skies, but the influence of El Niño is expected to bring higher-than-normal rainfall in January and February, according to a regional weather forecaster.

The customer at Suncoast Organic Farm Bakery off Southside Road in Hollister flagged down Baker Lisa Jensen and told her she had ruined his breakfast.

For two months, Robert Ingle said he slept about three hours a night leading up to the opening of his new store, Pumped Up Fitness Nutrition, on Nov. 9.

The Hollister Police Department was in the holiday spirit for a second consecutive year while hosting a massive bicycle giveaway at the local station. Last Saturday, officers donating their own time and efforts handed out more than 100 bikes to local youth whose families will especially appreciate it this season.

It's hard for one person to work at the same place for nearly four decades. But that’s exactly what Roselyn Oates did when she finished her final split shift at Progresso Tamale Parlor last Friday.

The water district, in collaboration with the City of Hollister, has developed a recycled water program. The program is designed to shift part of our future water supplies to more locally-controlled and reliable sources of water. Nothing is more reliable and sustainable for the planet than recycled water.

It all started for me when I was 9 years old, shortly after the 1989 Loam Prieta earthquake. On the sidelines of a Cabrillo College football game, being played at Aptos High, due to damage to Cabrillo’s stadium suffer in the earthquake, that’s where I caught the bug of sports photography, and that is when I took my first published photo, a Seahawks player returning an interception for a touchdown. On a night where my dad gave me an extra camera to roam the sidelines and shoot alongside for one the first times at a game, it was where I realized I loved doing this. It was more luck than anything else that got me that shot, but it made me want to shoot more, especially football.

Turkey! Potatoes and gravy! Pumpkin pie! Eggnog! Holiday cookies and pastries! Tamales! Pozole! What do these luscious treats have in common? Not only are they some of our favorite traditional foods, but they are also packed with hidden calories.