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Jeremy Turner | Working at the Wharf
For 15 years, Tommy Knowles has spent the better par…
On a recent sunny morning in downtown Carmel, the sm…
At Main Street Bakery, across the street from Salinas High and just a short walk from City Hall and the Monterey County Government Center, owner Luz Cedillo would normally be busting out wedding and First Communion cakes this time of year. She’d be planning catering orders for post-prom even…
Excerpted from April 25, 2019
When Gabriel Flores arrived in Salinas from Los Ange…
WHO’S IN TOWN?What started almost 40 years ago as two frustrated moms of schizophrenic sons talking around a kitchen table is now a movement named the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI. NAMI has 1,000 chapters in all 50 states, advocating on behalf of families grappling with menta…
The coronavirus epidemic and the subsequent public h…
That toilet paper became a precious commodity as people panic-purchased in the opening weeks of the shelter-in-place order didn’t come as a huge surprise.
Being a hotelier or short-term rental owner became t…
On March 19, the very first week of the county’s she…
Rita Wos is an unlikely proprietor of a CBD store. Her career is in real estate, and it was only when she started researching whether to buy Monterey Holistic Health on Lighthouse Avenue that she began trying products to see if they were any good. “I was never into pot,” she says. “I was doi…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I always hesitate to advi…