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The county’s single-family home sales market experienced a pullback in May, according to data from MLS Listings.

Every year during the budget hearings I tell the same joke: If the Hollister City Council really wanted more people to attend they should put dog parks on the agenda, because anything dealing with pets gets a big turnout. That’s a tongue-in-cheek commentary, but there is also an elemental truth in it. People have a deep love for their pets that often exceeds their feelings for other humans.

When Shelli Reed graduated from San Benito High in 2009, she left behind a mark of swimming excellence.

Daniel Barone never thought he’d be in this position again.

In the inaugural Little League Challenger Jamboree last Sunday, Hollister played Santa Cruz in Aptos.

When I was a little girl, every single weekend my father risked his own life to ensure that my sisters and I were safe. That’s because every single weekend he took my sisters and I to the ice cream store and bought us cones. And then he willingly took the biggest risk ever and taste tested our ice cream for us to make sure it wasn’t “poisoned.”

If residents can’t sleep at night, they will have yet another option to pass the time come August – they can get in a workout at the gym.

Perhaps some of the public has a negative stereotype of motorcyclists. Hearing their loud engines, seeing them splitting lanes while speeding down the freeway and reading about the drugs and violence associated with some bike clubs can be rather intimidating.

Twenty-five years ago, in April 1989, the TV series The Twilight Zone aired an episode titled “Special Service” that was – like so many of its offerings – way ahead of its time. The central character, Mr. John Selig, cast as, “a reasonably average man who goes through life with both eyes open and both hands firmly on the wheel” discovers that “his life is broadcast on television to the entire planet, 24 hours a day” when he finds a camera behind his bathroom mirror. Sound familiar? It should, the same storyline from that purchased script was the primary premise of the movie The Truman Show in 1998.

While Hollister’s housing sales market has remained relatively strong, one local business that reflects the home remodeling sector has experienced a major uptick in demand over the past three months.