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A poker chip weighs 11.5 grams. It feels heavy, solid and valuable in your hand.
Despite the name, the Carmel Bach Festival doesn’t j…
Things are going quite good for Mac DeMarco these da…
Forecasters are on the brink of declaring an official El Niño event for the Northern Hemisphere. National Weather Service (NWS) data put the chances of an El Niño fall and winter at 80 percent.
On a good day, harvesters can make $20 an hour in a …
Last year, violinist, singer and composer Caroline S…
After the Monterey City Council voted 4-1 on July 1 …
When George Tanimura was coming to after open-heart surgery a decade ago, the thing that got him out of the cloud of anesthesia was the price of lettuce. “We were buying acreage in the Imperial Valley, and he had maps in the hospital room,” recalls Kerry Varney, a VP at Tanimura & Antle,…
>> Winfield Gallery is showing Patterns of Inf…
The state of California is working diligently to hit…
Once Wayne Cloukey’s parents learned that their musically-gifted 3-year-old boy could make good money by doing what came naturally, he became a regular at New Orleans honky-tonks.
Last November, Salinas resident/anti-tax crusader/frequent litigant/political gadfly Mark Dierolf asked a pretty simple question of the city of Salinas: Could he have a copy of a document that City Clerk Patricia Barajas had been regularly providing to members of the City Council? The document detailed upcoming agenda items, pending appointments and likely reports councilmembers were to receive. Councilman Jose Castañeda had thanked Barajas for it during a City Council meeting and asked her about something he thought was missing from it. It was a simple enough discussion. Dierolf decided he wanted it, and others that had been handed out over previous months, too. The fact the document exists even appears on the council agenda. It was most definitely not a secret.
A real estate agent might say it needs a little TLC,…
Follow-up: Do you bet on sports like the Super Bowl or World Cup?
It was Friday when a man named Stephen Hnilica walke…
eavy metal pollution makes no distinction between ho…
CSUMB alum wants to organize a scholastic skateboard league – if Peninsula schools are ready for it.
On the Beach Surf Shop owner Kelly Sorensen reveres the dialed-in mind of a skateboarder. “You’re concentrating so intensely, thinking about the trick you’re going to do,” he says. “You’re hucking yourself over a rail, and on the other side is cement.”
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What are the sources that…
