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logos books on the corner of the alley
Last sketch of the sketchbook, not the last one of 2024. Logos Books is a good little bookshop downtown, they sell second-hand books and you can pick up some great bargains. They get their books f...
Big Brothers Big Sisters
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Elected to her first term in 2020, Supervisor Bea Gonzales-Ramirez is a Hollister native and teacher at Gavilan Community College with a juris doctor degree. Fixing run-down roads, broken sidewalks, and traffic congestion on Highway 25 are all major concerns of Gonzales, who represents Northwest Hollister, north of South Street, and west to Memorial Drive. She states, “For years, District 5 has been neglected, and it has been underserved and underrepresented.” Outside of politics, the lifelong resident, mother and grandmother remains committed to her students, stating, “My job is to advocate daily for my students’ needs.”
First elected: March 3, 2020
Day job: Educator
Alma maters: Monterey College of Law (doctor of law, 2001); California State University, Monterey Bay (bachelor’s degree, human communication, 1997)
Notable quote: “The issue of housing in San Benito County is extremely polarizing. We must work together to construct more affordable multi-family, high density units which may require the city and county to work with developers to encourage that type of construction.” (Source: BenitoLink.com)
From Benito Link...
At a Jan. 14 meeting, the San Benito County Board of Supervisors discussed the future of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital. By a unanimous vote, they decided to approach the San Benito Health Care District in an effort to stymie the potential lease-sale of the hospital to the Michigan-based Insight Health.
Construction of Riverview Regional Park, the 46-acre recreation zone planned for the area between the Hollister High School campus and the San Benito River, will begin this fall, a year later than originally expected.
For the second time, San Benito County has canceled a town hall meeting to discuss the future of the county’s fire protection services. The meeting—which was supposed to take place in December but was then rescheduled for Jan. 9—has been indefinitely postponed.
On Jan. 6 the San Benito County Board of Supervisors unanimously chose Kollin Kosmicki to be its chair for 2025. Among his duties, he will preside over board meetings, rule on questions of procedure and appoint committees to study issues.
In many elections, voters will cast a ballot selecting candidates at the top of the ticket but skip voting on “down-ballot” races—resulting in what election officials call “undervotes.” In the Nov. 5 election, a number of San Benito County races had more undervotes tallied than the margin between the top two choices, which means the undervotes may have determined the outcomes of those races.
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