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ON A TUESDAY MORNING, THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM AT CABRILLO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER IN SEASIDE IS BUZZING. About a dozen people are unpacking large boxes of food and sorting the products into brown paper grocery bags. Boxcutters zip through packing tape followed by a loud slap as boxes are tossed…
When Covid-19 struck the Monterey County Jail, it st…
This piece is exercepted from a cover story that was…
With its meandering path and views of ridgelines and…
Growing up, Christina Martinez’s dinner table looked a lot like many poor Tejanas’ tables: corn or flour tortillas, rice, beans and whatever vegetables were around after working the nearby ag fields. “I grew up fascinated by the things my family did just to survive,” she says, recalling her …
Seven years ago, a 52-year-old woman was admitted to…
Russ Walker has not been out at night to see the NEOWISE comet, although his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains is well above the fog line. At 89, he says he doesn’t get out much anymore, but he’s still awestruck by it. “It’s a beautiful comet,” Walker says. “The photos I’ve seen are just incr…
On July 20, the hands of Monterey County’s agricultural commissioner, Henry Gonzales, were tied. Funding for a first-of-its-kind program to notify the public ahead of hazardous pesticide fumigation had dried up. The program was going to have to end.
The shift from offices to working from home may be o…
Since the wet season began on Oct. 1, 2019, the majority of California has received below-average precipitation, and as vegetation dries out across the state, there’s been a significant increase in fire activity through June and July.
Over the weekend, some voters in Monterey County’s D…
Sahand Sultan-Qurraie is months past the date he had…
ROAM ON IN… Rise + Roam on Mission and Seventh in Carmel has reopened for business with a new menu and an all-star crew. Tanya Matta, formerly at Carmel Valley Ranch, is the executive pastry chef; Todd Fisher and Bastiaan DeWinter moved from Folktale Winery to be the vice president of culina…
It’s no secret: Nonprofit organizations like Meals o…
his famous lines, he wrote, “I am awaiting, perpetua…
