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On September 18, 1980, at about 6:30pm, Senior Airman David F. Powell and Airman Jeffrey L. Plumb walked into the silo at Launch Complex 374-7, a few miles north of Damascus, Arkansas. They were planning to do a routine maintenance procedure on a Titan II missile. They’d spent countless hour…
In the autumn of 1980, at a massive underground miss…
The Carmel Art & Film Festival is in flux before…
Last spring, the Internet flared with news of former…
Why is history such a numbing subject? It’s rightly one of the most fascinating. It’s stacked with stories – stories of adventure, suspense, drama, struggle, death, sorrow, triumph and liberation – things that really happened to actual people, and we still live with the repercussions. We are…
“Marathon” might be the best word to describe a Bric…
At first, it feels like there’s a perfunctory qualit…
The best fancy restaurants in the world like to say …
In photos, Felix Cuevas’ white Volkswagen bug doesn’t look like much, but he spent $2,850 on a paint job to spiff it up to a shiny blue. Dissatisfied with the work detailer Alfredo Garcia did, Cuevas filed a small-claims lawsuit trying to get his money back, and he told the story Oct. 7 in M…
In its ongoing quest for a new Monterey Peninsula wa…
A FOR, UM, EFFORT… Squid wants to know: If a pine cone falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, did it really fall? What about, say, a newspaper called the Carmel Pine Cone? Squid admits enjoying the circular, philosophical questions it sometimes poses in editorials – those in t…
Miguel Puga pushes a shopping cart through the parki…
When Walt Combs was 13, his love affair with hard ro…
Garrick Bushek, commonly known as Marv Ellis, finall…
MEASURE G – P.G. UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE
Local Spin 10.10.13
It’s no secret that real estate fetches high prices …
• The info didn’t get to me in time to make last week’s story, a round-up of the local film festivals coming in the next few months, but if it had, it would definitely have rated a big blip on that radar. On Oct. 19, the folks at Henry Miller Library bring Reel Rock 8 to the Golden State The…
In size and scope it looks like an addendum in Monte…
As familiar as many Peninsula residents are with the…
• Perfectly Pressed Juice Bar ‘n’ Eatery (998-8770) …
Most cities have an array of food trucks. But not ev…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes you quit games …
