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HE’S THE SON OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS WHO RAN A MONTEREY RESTAURANT AND THEN OPERATED A WALNUT RANCH IN CARMEL VALLEY. He attended Catholic grammar school, then graduated from Monterey High in 1956. He and his brother were the first in their family to attend college, and Leon Panetta graduated …
It was 1971 when the California High School Competit…
A colloquium is an academic seminar in which experts…
Two years ago, the Monterey County Emergency Medical…
The proprietor of Cat’s Meow wants to give timeless pieces – and eras for fashion – new life.
As the federal government withdraws from its role as…
On a Sunday afternoon, passersby on the Rec Trail in Pacific Grove pause to look through a chain-link fence toward the sea. At first glance, some don’t notice the harbor seals on the sand at Hopkins Beach, but volunteer Craig Noke is quick to encourage a boy to look through a spotting scope.
Joanna Luisa Gonzalez, who graduated from CSUMB’s Ci…
Ample rains this past winter have led to abundant wildflower blooms all over, so it seems like a good time to take in a floral art show.
"Im a fiction writer,” stresses James McMurtry. “I s…
It’s impossible to tell the gun wasn’t real, and the…
In 2012, Carlos Alvarez woke up in his Greenfield home in the middle of the night with no feeling in his legs. He cried out for his mom, who for a moment thought her son was just joking. “She looked at me after a while and was like, ‘This isn’t a joke.’” After several blood tests, Alvarez fo…
Some numbers: 23 albums in 30 years. Five Grammys. F…
Directed by Kim Nguyen• Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Kaniehtiio Horn • Rated R • 111 min.
I met Alfonso Cabrera on March 29, minutes after he …
Plastic’s gotta go. It never breaks down; it leaches…
Increasingly, baristas blur the lines between coffee…
Mohammad Ali Norouzi has been in the restaurant busi…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of our ance…
Within hours of the Christchurch massacre on March 1…