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THINGS WERE QUIET ON THE DECK OF DAVID JENSEN’S ECHO CANYON HOME IN PRUNEDALE ON SATURDAY, JUNE 26. The deck overlooks a small canyon of oak trees, with a spacious view of the golden hills looking toward Aromas to the east. A neighbor’s rooster could be heard crowing from time to time as eve…
A changing of the guard is underway at Monterey’s fa…
When Covid-19 started infecting people in Monterey C…
When I think about Mexican snacks, or antojitos, suc…
If the walls could speak at Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, they’d have a lot to say. The museum has been open since 1883 to house the preserved natural wonders of the area, originally so that the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific societies could study them. But museums, and how pe…
Kat Morgan moved to Seaside at the beginning of shel…
In California, there’s no mandatory arrest policy in…
The two captains, two firefighters, a firefighter-in-training and a paramedic at Salinas Fire Station One – one of the busiest in the city – were divided between a fire engine and a fire truck.
Thanks to the chaparral ecosystem that dominates the hills of this Monterey County destination, Toro Park bounced back quickly from the 2020 River Fire. Almost a year ago, the first wildfire of the “Fire Season,” sparked by a freak lightning storm, burned through approximately 48,000 acres o…
Every morning, Linda Martin-Hellyer picks up her Can…
With her 14-year-old chihuahua mix, Houdini, riding shotgun in her periwinkle pickup truck, Dee Heckman navigates Carmel Valley Road’s winding turns with torque, zipping under the canopy of live oaks and through the valley’s dry, chaparral environment. Heckman, 54, is traveling from radiatio…
That a husband and wife run a winery in Monterey Cou…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Joshua Jennifer Espinoza writes, “i name my body girl of my dreams / i name my body proximity / i name my body full of hope despite everything.” I love her idea that we might give playful names and titles and descriptors to our bodies. In alignment with curren…
