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It was Friday night, Oct. 18, 2019. Sixteen-year-old Perla Velasco-Cruz was getting texts from a friend beckoning her to hang out that night.
It’s not easy to pry land from the clutches of the 1…
![[CANCELLED]: A film festival celebrates a diversity of Latino stories that transcend ethnicity.](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/montereycountynow.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/86/586c3306-63da-11ea-9d48-03fd582d4365/5e694fd6000fa.image.jpg?crop=750%2C750%2C125%2C0)
The Watsonville Film Festival covers such a wide spe…
![[CANCELLED]: With a guest conductor unable to travel, symphony fills in from its own ranks.](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/montereycountynow.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/2e/92ec50e4-63dd-11ea-81f2-cff147b0cba1/5e695543ca95d.image.jpg?crop=375%2C375%2C264%2C92)
As the effects of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 rip…
The COVID-19 test kits – in plastic bags marked with a big red square and “BIOHAZARD” on the front – arrived at the Monterey County Public Health Lab on Friday, March 6, and by Monday, technicians had conducted tests on samples collected from 15 patients. Two separate tests are involved, one…
"There aren’t many places where I can eat anything o…
This coronavirus thing is spreading (by the way, it’…
In the recent edition of the Middlebury Institute of…
Follow-up: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen while enjoying the outdoors?
"All children, except one, grow up.” Those simple, m…
The one-man soul band known as Mark Banks is a sheer…
From the same line of holidays that you may not have…
Finding a friend in an old foe, Monterey County rece…
Crying over taxes isn’t unusual. Crying tears of joy over taxes?
For a long time, and as recently as two years ago, 7…
NUCLEAR OPTION… Scanning agendas of government meetings is Squid’s favorite game. The objective is to suss out the meaning behind the bureaucratic lingo. Take a recent example from Monterey Bay Community Power, whose March 4 agenda listed an item “Regarding Proposed Allocation of Greenhouse …
Rich Cook is not one to drink wine. The Chief Wine J…
Mark Chesebro has a mean streak. Well, not exactly a…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Giacomo Puccini’s famous …
