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Yes, California’s golden (read: brown) hills are lovely, but even in non-drought years our mid-summer landscape seems coated by a dusty dinge that makes me long for a cool verdant setting. Fortunately for us, medicine for parched souls is just over the hill.

Judge Harry Tobias on Thursday said he had to read over some materials yet before making a decision in the lawsuit against the Panoche Valley Solar Project, but did set a time to make the ruling.

As the sensibly named Colin Kosmicki grows up in Brighton, N.Y., he won’t have to routinely, despondently spell out his first name to baristas or anyone else requesting clarification at counters. He won’t have to worry about filling any charity quotas before approaching the Pearly Gates, because he sealed the deal a full decade before he’ll sniff a tax benefit. He won’t have to suffer through puberty wondering if any girls would possibly notice more than his Hostess-infused obliques, outsized head and general unease.

The National Weather Service has declared a heat advisory for San Benito County lasting from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.

The local Amah Mutsun tribe is reinforcing its opposition to the sainthood of Junipero Serra through a letter recently sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.

The newly renovated Pavilion at Bolado Park will host this week's After Hours event organized by the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau.

When 14-year-old Adam Shapiro of Pacific Grove came to Hollister recently, his goal was to fly where raptors hang out as they glide effortlessly above the rolling hills around the town known more for bikers than pilots—and to do it solo.

Congressman Sam Farr during his annual town hall meeting here made a prediction about the next Super Bowl, and it involved Hollister.

San Benito County officials are planning to meet Monday with representatives of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation at San Justo Reservoir to discuss the eradication plan for the site.

In devising a list of “100 Ways to Eradicate a Reservoir Infested with Zebra Mussels in Under a Decade” for the research journal Stuff, an idea struck me as poignantly appropriate, amusing, vengeful and satisfying.