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The League of Women Voters of Monterey County supports Measure O, the initiative requiring the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD) to analyze the feasibility of purchasing California American Water Company and to purchase it if it is found to be feasible. LWVMC support is based on our position that water is a necessary resource for human life and that it is a public resource, not a commodity.

• Naomi Hirahara is the author of the Mas Arai mystery series, which follows a man named Mas from Hiroshima in the 1940s to his life and intrigues in L.A. Hirahara’s last book,Strawberry Yellow, was set in Watsonville. She speaks 6pm Thursday at John Steinbeck Library (350 Lincoln Ave., Sali…