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Life is better with sauce. And life is best with secret sauce. The winners of the annual Best of Monterey County® Readers’ Poll identify the special ingredient(s) that make them our favorites.

Founded in 1883 by the Chautauqua Society, the charge of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, then as now, has been to educate people in the natural history of the surroundings. Its rotating exhibits and permanent displays of native plants, rocks and animals – including more than 400…

We were en route to San Rafael on Sunday morning for the best reason ever: It was time to get together with our San Francisco Giants-loving brethren for our second annual season ticket pick. (One San Rafael couple, friends of some friends, hold a season ticket license for the Giants. Eight of us chip in the bucks and we each select 10 games to attend, round-robin style. Post-season games? Forget about it. Mr. and Mrs. San Rafael are nice, but they’re not that nice.)

It has all the makings of a Lifetime movie: A woman buys property in rural South County with plans of starting an organic farm. But what began as a dream turns into a nightmare. Her neighbors harass her, she alleges, and their frequent target practice makes her fear for her life. Her house r…

WHO’S IN TOWN?Trail mix is usually about finding that perfect salty-sweet crunch. Not so much for the Dried Fruit Association, which keeps California’s dried fruit and nut industry up to speed on the latest in food safety policy. Their annual Safe Food California conference, sponsored by ind…