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Calfire Information Officer Jonathan Pangburn was speaking with the Free Lance on Monday afternoon about the fire season when he paused because a fire was in progress in San Juan Bautista.

A vegetation fire spanning an estimated 25 to 30 acres was burning Monday afternoon off northbound Highway 101 between Anzar Road and Highway 156, according to an information officer from Calfire.

Students from Aromas, San Juan Bautista and Hollister participated in a two-week camp this month focused on restoring the environment.

Santa Cruz resident Joe Guerrero has been named "2014/2015 Dispatcher of the Year" for Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. The center’s board of directors plans to honor him at its Thursday meeting, according to an announcement from Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1.

Idle in the main, left lane at northbound San Felipe Road and Highway 25 at the intersection of Hollister and the world early on a Monday was a battered pickup truck with a muffler louder than the San Benito Foods tomato cannery and a trailer carrying heaps of wood ready to spill like a mangled tower of Jenga blocks.

Roy Schmidt may be close to 102 years old, but the longest-living, retired California Highway Patrolman still has plenty of detail-packed stories to tell about his days on the local beat.

The Dollar Tree store in Hollister destroyed by a December 2013 fire is preparing to reopen soon.

Hollister made it onto the map in a big way this month when a story about the rural city penned by Bay Area writer Dave Eggers made it into The New Yorker.

A new, published book recounts the history of biker lore with an emphasis on Hollister and the events of July 1947.

“Big Al” Vergara, driver of the long, bannered Crime Inc. truck carrying the traveling business to events like the Hollister Freedom Rally, was selling to the backdrop of mellow, grooving music Saturday at the Fourth Street grassy lot.