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1,500 homes in the hills and in the Indian Springs and Las Palmas developments along River Road, are being threatened…
This piece is excerpted from a story originally publ…
“It’s like a retro-nasal aromatic in your mouth, and it tastes like ashtray…”
“Your dog will likely die of the heat if you continue…”
The lighting that sparked the River Fire, and the thunder that accompanied it, shook the ground under Butch’s four feet in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 16…
Since the pandemic, households everywhere have been …
Before coming to Monterey County, I lived in a neigh…
The reaction to a photo of wall-to-wall tourists on …
Cesar Ayon grew up in Gonzales in the 1980s and ’90s, and thrived thanks to public schools that provided enrichment programs. Tennis, in particular, he says, helped shape him as a person. He left the area after high school and spent nearly two decades away. When he came back to be near famil…
It turns out the under-resourced people who need med…
While hundreds of firefighters attempted to tame the…
If you’ve lived in Monterey County, you know it doesn’t have four seasons and the peak of summer heat doesn’t usually start picking up until fall. Welcome to August and its heat waves, everybody. Beat the heat while public pools are closed by swimming a few laps in the shallower parts of the…
When Wendy Brodie and her late husband Robert “Buzz”…
There isn’t much difference in the platforms of the …
FREE SPEECHIn this back-to-school season unlike any ever before, the images quickly went viral: Kids shoulder-to-shoulder, packing the hallways in North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, on Aug. 3, the first day of school, face coverings scant. One student who posted a video and a pho…
Sounds so sweet, “Mother Nature.” The expression ori…
On any average day, Nepenthe in Big Sur is full of locals and tourists alike enjoying the expansive view and perhaps an adult beverage.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough,” said Aries singer Billie Holiday. I don’t think that applies to everyone, although it’s more likely to be true about the Aries tribe than maybe any other sign of the zodiac. And I’m guessing that…
The infectious outbreak of Covid-19 is ravaging Mont…
