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FRESNO - March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresno Unified School District celebrated the completion of a ...
MADERA - James “Jimbo” Taubert (71) unexpectedly passed away on March 20, 2024, at the age of 71 in ...
FRESNO - Operation SLO Ride has resulted in the dismantling of a criminal organization operating in ...
FRESNO - Huu Tieu, 61, of Porterville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of introducing misbranded ...
FRESNO - Travis Gober, 45, of Hanford, was sentenced to 19 months in prison today for committing health ...
FRESNO - A federal jury has found Todd Eric Mumma, 60, of Fresno, guilty of actual and attempted sexual ...
FRESNO COUNTY - Members of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Crime Scene Unit have identified 43-year-old ...
FRESNO - Trevon Miller, 31, a former Air Force Police Officer at Edwards Air Force Base, pleaded guilty ...
FRESNO -  As a result of Operation Fraud Street Mafia, a Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) inmate has ...
FRESNO COUNTY - Property crimes detectives with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office have arrested ...
FRESNO - The Fresno City College West Fresno Campus suffered a significant amount of copper wire theft ...
FRESNO - A new chapter begins in Fresno's history with the grand opening of The Arthur @ Blackstone, a ...
SACRAMENTO - A federal jury found Charles Barrett, 39, guilty today of two counts of aggravated sexual ...
FRESNO - Artak Vardanyan, 40, of Burbank, was sentenced today to 11 months in prison for conspiring to ...
SAN DIEGO - The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is investigating the Feb. ...
COALINGA – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating ...
FRESNO – On Thursday morning, the City Attorney’s Office Code Enforcement Division, California ...
SACRAMENTO - Elias Hernandez-Valencia, 48, a Mexican national residing in Madera, was sentenced Monday, ...
SACRAMENTO - U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced today that criminal and civil matters handled by ...
FRESNO - Makiah Miles, 30, of Compton, and Apryl Weston, 51, of Santa Maria, pleaded guilty today to ...
FRESNO - Kenneth Laitman, aka John Rodman, 79, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to passport fraud, U.S. ...
FRESNO - Alberto Gomez-Santiago, 38, a Mexican national residing in Arvin, was sentenced today to four ...
FRESNO -  Shawn Sawa, 47, formerly of Clovis, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire ...
SACRAMENTO -  Richard Jason Mountford, formerly of Monterey County, pleaded guilty today to ...
SACRAMENTO -  U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in ...
SACRAMENTO - Brant Daniel, 49, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in aid of racketeering ...
MADERA  – The holiday season can be dangerous for people on the roads. In December 2021 alone, ...
MADERA - One person was injured after an afternoon shooting at the Vallarta Shopping Center parking lot ...
SACRAMENTO - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California has entered into ...
FRESNO - Christopher Contreras, 29, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to one count of attempted ...

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70th Anniversary: Hollister Independance Rally Huge Success

HOLLISTER, CA - The bikes rolled back into Hollister, California last Friday for the now annual Independence Rally hosted by city. The of this historic rally was San Benito Street right in the middle of the city’s downtown. Motorcycles filled the city’s main street for a four block area where vendors sold everything from t-shirts to motorcycles along the side roads.

This year marked the seventh anniversary of historic American Motorcycle Association sanctioned Gypsy Tour Event held in the city where "evil bikers" (the 1%) invaded the city in 1947.  After staged photo outside Johnny's Bar was published in Life Magazine in 1947, followed by a Harper's Magazine's article "The Cyclists Raid" and the Marlon Brando movie "The Wild Ones" hit the theaters, the legend of the outlaw biker was born. However the events in Hollister in 1947 bore little resemblances to the movie or the article, the bikers did not run amok nor become violent.

As we have learned from the movies, "when the legend becomes the fact, print the legend."

This year the rally would be ran by Reno promotion group RoadShows. In an agreement with promoter Reno-based RoadShows, which runs the Street Vibrations events in Nevada, the promoter agreed to pay $140,000 to cover city costs such as police, fire and public works. And last week they did just that when the group handed the city a check to cover all the expenses. The city of Hollister had a falling out with a previous promoter, ConvExx, which runs the Bikefest Rally in Las Vegas. According to the city that group still owes the city roughly $90,000.

Thousands of bikes lined a four block area of San Benito Street and rally-goers checked out their favorite bikes up and down the street. While motorcycles revved morning to night throughout the weekend, attendees purchased leather jackets and souvenir T-shirts front vendors on each side of the street. Other vendors offerings included insurance promotions, sunglasses, THC infused juices and beef jerky.

Many of the forty thousand attendees made a be-line for the bar where the legend was born, Johnny's Bar and Grill. "I do a month and a half worth of business in a week," said Charisse Tyson, owner of Johnny's.

The city of Hollister was very happy with the turn-out for this year’s rally and is looking forward to continuing to work with the Reno promoter RoadShows in years to come. Next year’s rally is scheduled for June 28th through July 1st. But if you can't wait there is always Sturgis in August and of course Reno's Street Vibration in September.

See you in Reno.

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