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For years, some North County residents complained that a locked gate at the entrance to Manzanita County Park was blocking access to public land, making it in essence a private park for the youth association that runs a sports complex there. The gate was only open during special events and y…
Marc Silber, a lifelong photographer based in Carmel…
There are four days packed with high-speed races, but there are other events that appeal to all paces…
Crosby, Stills & Nash’s unofficial leader David Crosby played Monterey Pop with his previous group The Byrds, harmonized with CS&N in front of hundreds of thousands two years later at Woodstock and, at 75, keeps on trucking without spending much energy rehashing the past.
An hour into the Salinas High School Mountain Bike T…
The dream died almost as quickly as it was born.
Follow-up: What’s a historical event you would want to go back in time to witness?
Director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune are…
A question that’s long been asked about California American Water’s proposed desalination plant – and which is brought up in several letters commenting on the project’s environmental impact report – is exactly how big it should be.
When it comes to visiting inmates in the county jail…
The Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival returns to…
What with the dual slalom riders barreling downhill at Mach 3, the ramp-riding aerial bikers doing gymnastic back flips through the clouds…
It’s not just the internet that’s made times tougher for local bike shops this past year…
“Riding the e-bike sometimes seems like it’s cheating, but I keep telling myself I’m replacing my car, not my bike”…
In January 2016, the Salinas City Council voted to allow cannabis dispensaries, commercial cultivation, production and delivery services to operate within city limits.
Do anything for three decades, and a general malaise…
The 2016 Brompton World Championship USA race at Laguna Seca began with a running (or Le Mans) start and our Brompton bikes fully folded up 50 yards away…
Over the course of three days came Dungeness crab salad tostaditas, fresh-shucked oysters with carrot and ginger mignonette, North African-style chermoula-spiced rock cod, mini rolled porchetta with chimichurri, little boxes of five-spice chicken chow mein, some of the best old-fashioned bur…
Pebble Beach Food and Wine: It’s about the best of t…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): After George Washington w…