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IF IT WEREN’T FOR A GROUP OF BOOKWORMS BACK IN 1849, THE MONTEREY PUBLIC LIBRARY WOULDN’T EXIST. Luckily for residents today, that original group of five trustees helped sell shares for $32 each to residents, raising a total of $1,500. It was enough to buy the library’s first collection of b…
Outside of Salinas City Hall on June 4 and donning a…
Michael Ndubisi is a 17-year-old Black student and f…
Movement is afoot in Monterey’s Pearl District where…
Nearly four years ago, the $100 million Maj. Gen. Wi…
Government budget season is often a marathon charact…
There came a moment – after almost five hours of technology problems, translator issues and listening to 63 public commenters who were sometimes bitterly divided on what the city of Salinas’ budget should look like, and why – that Councilmember Steve McShane sounded almost hopeful that the v…
The letter arrived Tuesday, June 1 – after the long …
Less than two years after the city of Marina adopted…
“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?” asked then-Sen. Barack Obama, during an Iowa campaign rally in 2007. There was no Whole Foods in Iowa at the time, and his gaffe, and the inevitable backlash, all became known as “Arugula-gate.”
The unconfirmed story goes that Jacques Cousteau, th…
Many people have heard the term yerba mate, whether …
No musical genre depends more upon a more changing live environment than jazz, given its moment-to-moment improvisation, between both players and audience members. That spontaneity was lost through the lockdown, so when the Monterey Jazz Festival announced on June 9 that the show would indee…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries actor Leonard Nimoy…
On the anniversary of George Floyd’s tragic death, p…
