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A Saturday around noon in early May, and the woman cleaning the windows on the inside of Villa Azteca offers a half-smile and a nod to the pair of masked passersby walking south on Main Street through Oldtown Salinas.
Like across most of the United States, crime in Mont…
A few months ago, you would not have found postal wo…
There’s a story in the Bible that goes something lik…
On Jan. 10, amid the ongoing outcry for neighborhood safety following the 2019 stabbing death of a pregnant woman allegedly at the hands of a homeless man, Salinas City Councilmember Steve McShane sponsored a community meeting at the YMCA. So many people turned out that it was standing room only.
When Ameena Maria Khawaja and her husband, Danko Dru…
Misconduct report from Salinas Valley State Prison results in a new statewide internal affairs unit.
After discovering systemic mishandling of inmate com…
Excerpted from a story originally published on May 1, 2014.
As Monterey County moves forward into reopening, health officials expect Covid-19 cases to increase.
As Monterey County reopens for business, Covid-19 ha…
On a crisp fall night just four months before Covid-19 – what now feels like a lifetime ago – about 100 people gathered shoulder-to-shoulder around a communal table running straight down Grand Avenue in downtown Pacific Grove. Guests noshed on dishes by local restaurants and sipped regional …
In Salinas, a city-sanctioned Police Community Advis…
Many cannabis professionals spend their time helping…
EAT YOUR VEGGIES… FreshRX is a partnership between local farmers markets and health care providers. Doctors “prescribe” fresh fruits and vegetables to patients, and the prescriptions subsidize farmers market groceries. Everyone’s Harvest now has three markets open (Marina, Pacific Grove and …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): During her 90 years on th…
If local leaders think our community’s deep pain and…
Rising VoicesThank you for these real stories (“Can we end racism in Monterey County? These young leaders think it’s possible,” June 4-10). Darcie Fohrman | via InstagramSo powerful. I can’t imagine the pain they feel, we do need to open our eyes and look around. It’s true, enough is enough.…
