San Benito County Local News: History

About 50 Civil War “reenactors” spent Sept. 16-18 at San Benito County Historical Park demonstrating what life, work and combat were like in the 1860s during the war between the North and South.

Hollister residents celebrated the renaming of one of the city’s streets to Avenida Cesar Chavez, in honor of the California labor leader. Dozens of people attended the ribbon cutting ceremony.

The city of Hollister closed out its summer-long 150th anniversary celebration with a bang Aug. 6. The celebration started with a parade through the city’s downtown.

Hollister artist and 2021 San Benito High School alumna McKenna Neff designed the city’s commemorative 150th anniversary flag that will fly over city hall through the end of this year.  Members of the Hollister Arts and Culture Commission unveiled the flag to the local community at the July 15 Movie Under the Stars event at [...]

As part of a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, Youth Alliance recently had the opportunity to participate in a visit to Indian Canyon, a ceremonial site for local indigenous people south of Hollister.  Young people were immersed into this space by Kanyon “Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods as she greeted the group with [...]

A host of local agencies, organizations, groups and individuals are working together to put on a grand celebration of the city of Hollister’s 150th anniversary.