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Bestselling author Dave Eggers will be stopping in Hollister next month to celebrate the life and writing of his great-great grandfather T.S. Hawkins, the founder of the local hospital. 

They were tiny, these boxes. White with pink, blue and yellow sprays of carnations.

If Hollister council members hand out a hundred grand in taxpayers’ money to their favorite nonprofit groups, they might as well class up the selection process and assess potential recipients through a series of tests played out on every local do-gooder’s home court—the dining room and lounge at San Juan Oaks Golf Club.

A landowner has sued the county over a policy in the newly approved general plan that could prevent the party from developing due to a nearby agricultural industrial facility, according to a lawsuit filed at the San Benito County Courthouse.

Authorities confirmed more details, including a cause, in the fatal accident Monday morning on Pacheco Pass.

The National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for San Benito County in effect through 9 a.m. Wednesday.

A fire early Monday morning destroyed a garage-like structure on Olympia Avenue near San Juan Bautista, the Hollister fire chief confirmed.

In the previous column, we saw Marty McFly and Emmitt “Doc” Brown land in Hollister. They stopped for Doc’s favorite Mansmith’s tri-tip before a trip back to Hill Valley, Calif., 30 years after the October 1985 setting in the iconic “Back to the Future” trilogy. In this sequel, we join Marty and Doc on the downtown Briggs Building roof eating sandwiches with the DeLorean parked around a ledge.

San Benito County Emergency Services is hosting three upcoming workshops to help prepare local residents, businesses and organizations for the upcoming El Niño winter storms.

With a west-side homeless encampment along the riverbed, government officials and homeless advocates have started preparing for the possibility of an emergency removal of the resident if flooding occurs and expanded bed space at the homeless shelter.