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ONE SUNNY PRE-PANDEMIC MORNING in a pavilion at Concours d’Elegance, the annual classic car week and trillionaire fest at Pebble Beach, I helped myself to a buffet breakfast and sat down at a table next to a couple in their early 50s. The woman, whom I’ll call Sally, told me she grew up midd…
After coming on as assistant brewer in 2019, Natalie…
Over the course of two days in May, psychiatrist Ker…
Getting a badge and being a peace officer was very d…
After they’re applied to fields, pesticides can and do drift, with droplets and dust traveling beyond their applied boundaries and sometimes causing accidental exposure. That’s why farmworkers, activists and some local politicians are pushing county agricultural commissioners statewide to po…
Jovita Dominguez wanted to become a nurse from a ver…
A farmer friend gave me a box of spinach the other w…
During a meeting on May 5, longtime Monterey County …
TENTACLES EQUAL DOLLARS… Squid normally spends vast …
John Quincy Adams famously started his days by swimming nude in the Potomac River. Georgia O’Keefe would wake up at 6am, light a fire or a candle, then sit back in existential crisis until she was ready to start her work. Frida Kahlo began her day with a beauty ritual, braiding her hair and …
Locals in the cannabis industry talk about the produ…
Exactly two weeks after the Biden administration app…
Monterey County doesn’t have obvious seasons, but that just means you have to look for more subtle changes. Even from one day to the next, popular local hiking trails can look like an entirely different place. Get to know the different features that signal the change – early blooming flowers…
On Saturday night of Memorial Day weekend, a man working a swing shift at Mann Packing in mostly low-crime Gonzales went out to his car to take his dinner break when he was set upon by another man – this one armed – and shot to death. In a press release that was light on details, Gonzales Po…
The Israeli police have declared yet another war aga…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “There is ecstasy in payi…
