Author: Rachelle Escamilla

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Art & Culture

Friends Volunteer to Improve Our Library’s Welfare

The Friends of the Library is hosting their largest annual fundraising event at San Juan Oaks.

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Government / Politics

Riverview Estates neighborhood working to understand CSA funds

Homeowners begin organizing to address needs in their community

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Gathering to celebrate the life of local author and activist, Kate Woods

Locals will gather on the 400 Block at sunset on Friday, May 26 to celebrate the journalist who died in a car crash in rural San Benito County

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Art & Culture

Facebook group promotes public art

ARTI-Culture crew will host a pop-up rock painting party at the Farmers' Market this Wednesday

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Art & Culture

Library fundraiser a success

A recent Friends of the Library event raised $4,500

Small girl reaches for books on shelf while holding a doll.

Children and Youth

OPINION: Preserving our Library

The Friends of the Library will hold its annual fundraiser this Sunday from 1-3:30 p.m.; tickets are on sale now.

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Art & Culture

Library asks for support on #GivingTuesday

The Friends of the San Benito County Free Library call on the community to support the library on #GivingTuesday

Members of the community join the fundraiser to help the library. Toast!

Nonprofits

Thank you from the Friends of the Library

The Friends of the San Benito County Free Library thank the community for their support at recent fundraiser

400 Block gets a flowers and a picnic bench as part of a new community space

Art & Culture

COMMENTARY: Community Placemaking at the 400 Block

Artists and community members gather to create an outdoor classroom on the 400 Block

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Art & Culture

COMMENTARY: Women on the Frontier

Hollister's newest mural features a woman caballero

Maria and Martha Diaz stand in front of bowls of masa

Tamale-making is a tradition for many San Benito County families

Every year, the Diaz sisters get together to make tamales. This year, a new cook learns the ropes

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Housing / Land Use

Hollister once again becomes a canvas for artists

New mural taking shape just north of downtown

Devil from the play stands with two thumbs up between the white wall of the mission and the darkness of the night.

Art & Culture

La Pastorela: A Review

What happens when a theater company taps into cultural consciousness and takes an old trope like "good versus evil" and makes it new?