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Julie Vieira has been active early on as interim president/CEO of the county’s chamber.

San Benito County is about to get cultural with a series of poetry readings and artistic performances in the locally owned El Epazote Restaurant in downtown Hollister.

Hollister council members Monday tabled consideration of an extension on the motorcycle rally contract until two new council members take the oath of office next week.

Every fall and spring, the High Point Furniture Market presents all the newest and most colorful home furnishing products to the design community. The colors most prevalent during the fall market are indicators of what you will see in stores for the upcoming year. Here are color directions that jumped out at us at this fall’s market—food for thought when you’re thinking about future updates to your home.

“Cirque Dreams Holidaze” arrives at the Center for the Performing Arts blazing with freshness and energy. A little different than what we are use to with other productions of this kind, but nonetheless entertaining and eye catching. This is a young offering of this type of production and has a ways to go to catch up to its big brother, but it’s on its way with no holds barred.

It’s that time of year again. The time when no matter what holiday you celebrate, families get together. We share a meal. We share time together. And generally this ends well with everyone radiating love and a full stomach when the celebration is over.

The pastime of backpacking is a tough sell, and that is a terrible shame. I will never win over the “my-idea-of-camping-is-a-night-at-the-Four-Seasons” crowd. After all, there is a good bit of burdened walking and doing without. But many times, I have watched the evening light cast a glow over a wilderness setting of amazing grandeur and peace and thought that if I could just pick someone up and set them down here, they would dismiss the hardships as a small price to pay for such a moment.

The Free Lance had a newsroom full of likeable eccentrics in the early 2000s, but I’m guessing most of them would acknowledge that Linda Lee King was the most eccentric of the bunch in those days. Linda never stopped telling stories, in person and on paper. Usually, the topics weren’t so serious—her chickens were the main characters in a lot of them—but she had plenty of somber, ice-cold experiences to share as well.

The holiday shopping season has certainly begun, judging from the decorations seen in local stores and the sales being advertised. However, this is not the “Christmas season” itself because, according to the traditional Christian calendar, that begins on Dec. 25 and continues through Jan. 5 (the famous “12 Days of Christmas”).

Not everyone can afford to buy residential real estate and not every company wants to purchase their space. For those reasons we have leasing and renting.