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Here at the height of the Christmas season, we’ve kicked it into overdrive. Since Thanksgiving, we’ve been decorating and organizing, gift-finding and wrapping, crafting and baking. House lights are up, stockings are hung, Christmas trees sparkle with magic, as if delivered by Santa himself. In the background we envision an appropriate accompaniment to our colossal efforts: the Boston Pops Orchestra’s playing of the “Hallelujah Chorus.”

Isaiah Ortiz was 6 months old when he suffered his first seizure.

Of all the superlatives Hartnell College women’s soccer coach Ivan Guerrero had for her sophomore defender, Victoria Perez, two remarks stood out.

When Tres Pinos cattle rancher Allan Renz goes riding into the pasture to check his herd, it’s warmer than usual. Recent rains saturate the earth. There’s grass growing.

The Hollister Downtown Association is moving to a new office.

Londoners know, and visitors find, that the city is unlike any other capital in the world. London projects the whole essence of Britain. The creation of London at her birth--as an urban settlement dating back to Roman times--tells a story all its own and perhaps a hint of how this grand city of today gathered the strength to survive and become one of the leading cities in the world.

The first Holte Holiday Dinners event under new leadership on Thanksgiving went well, and now organizers are preparing for the Christmas lunch.

Workers stood in waist-high greenery in a quarter-mile-long stretch of crops in Hollister packing, cutting and stacking celery on a cool December morning.

The latest, available storm totals for San Benito County show the highest measurement for the area at 3.76 inches of rain in the past two days.

The current rain totals from the storm that swept through the region on Thursday show 3.62 inches of rain in one area close to Hollister, according to the National Weather Service.