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THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FIELD, but the central characters are neither football players nor high school students. They are a recently retired restaurateur and winemaker; myriad school administrators; elected and appointed officials deliberating over things as tedious as p…
Graduating CSU Monterey Bay seniors Jasmine Bhardwaj…
The official start time was noon on May 7, but the c…
Whether it’s an image of Cannery Row’s original 16 b…
Drive along Highway 1 between Seaside and Marina sometimes and it’s a fast-moving road. Drive it other times of day – weekdays at rush hour, or on weekends during tourist season – and it’s a parking lot. Officials at Monterey-Salinas Transit are hoping to incentivize taking the bus by buildi…
Renowned artist Jayson Fann takes on a childlike exc…
As the inaugural bar manager for the Grill at Point …
It’s that time of the decade again when, by state mandate, the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments, or AMBAG, zooms out to 30,000-feet. It’s time to draft a 25-year regional transportation and community plan, aimed at preparing the region for 2045, when the population is projected t…
When Corey Madden relocated from North Carolina to r…
The only public bank in the U.S. is the Bank of North Dakota, headquartered in Bismarck. That may soon change as growing momentum around public banking has governments across the country talking, including in Monterey County.
Craftsman Henry John Downie, “Harry” to all who knew him, was supposed to only stick around the Monterey Peninsula for a few weeks in 1931 to repair some statues at San Carlos Church in Monterey. After fixing what he could there, he headed to Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel, where foun…
Two men butcher small animals outdoors while two oth…
There’s an interesting chess match taking place in Salinas, one that involves neither an actual board nor pieces, but features a whole lot of strategy.
The accident shouldn’t have been a big deal, not for…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one of her poems, Emil…
Where are we now? This time last year, even then-President Donald Trump knew the virus was a “plague” that “rips you apart.” Many of us tried to hold it together, hoping as the summer of 2020 rolled around that the worst was over, hunkering down as much as we could but with the respite of wa…
