San Benito County Local News: History

09/04/2023
California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.

08/17/2023
In a new study published Aug. 17 in the journal Science, fossil records at La Brea Tar Pits indicate that the disappearance of California’s sabertooth cats, dire wolves and other large mammals nearly 13,000 years ago was linked to rising temperatures and fire activity spurred by people.

07/05/2023
The first-in-the-nation measure to add caste to state anti-discrimination laws, which passed the state Senate, survives the Assembly judiciary committee. The bill’s author refused to water down the measure further.

06/26/2023
An obscure 1910s-era labor board once regulated everything from canneries to film sets to sheep farms. Why is California trying to bring it back now?

05/31/2023
Elwood Dryden was born on June 1, 1919. The well-known local businessman and former owner of the Sugar Plum Farm Restaurant said in an interview, “I remember when the county was only 3,000 people.”

05/31/2023
With a conservative Supreme Court expected to rule this summer in favor of ending or restricting affirmative action in college admissions, California’s private universities are worried about the potential impact on campus diversity. College administrators are revamping admissions and doing more high school outreach, while student activists are campaigning against a potential ban.

05/15/2023
Dick and Mac McDonald came to California to seek opportunities in the movie business and wound up owning a drive-in BBQ restaurant in San Bernardino. On May 15, 1948, they opened their revamped restaurant with a Speedee Service System featuring hamburgers.

05/07/2023
Economic models calculate reparations to eligible Black residents to address past racial inequities. The task force also voted to recommend California apologize for “gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity and African slaves and their descendants.”

05/06/2023
The San Benito County Historical Society has acquired 13 restored and partially restored two-cylinder John Deere agricultural tractors manufactured between 1926 and 1953 and used on farms in the San Jose area.

04/10/2023
Few assembly members have pledged their support for monetary reparations for the descendants of formerly enslaved people. Public response is split.

03/05/2023
A state-appointed panel inching toward recommendations for reparations wants a new state agency to handle compensation and services to Black people.

02/05/2023
A small white deer is the sole survivor of a once-large herd created by famed publisher William Randolph Hearst.

01/08/2023
The idea has caught the attention of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. It will present six draft strategies for bringing tourism to the Salinas and San Juan valleys.

11/29/2022
Californians are accustomed to being battered by many of nature's whims. Less familiar are volcanic eruptions like the one currently taking place at Hawaii's Mauna Loa. But California's own volcanoes are capable of violent fury.

11/29/2022
Avi Kwa Ame National Monument will protect sacred Native American sites, wildlife.

11/21/2022
The woman, who moved to Santa Cruz County in the 1950s, is said to have had visions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and other Catholic saints.

11/16/2022
Beauty drew Brieanne Mirjah D'Souza to Eureka.

11/10/2022
Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom recently joined the California Museum in announcing the 15th class of inductees into the California Hall of Fame. They join 138 Californians previously inducted for embodying the state’s innovative spirit.