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THE GROUND MURAL AT SAND CITY ART PARK CAN BE SEEN FROM AN AIRPLANE, ANNOUNCING TO THE WORLD THAT SAND CITY IS THE OFFICIAL COLORING BOOK OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA. Local painters Bryan Gage and Paul Richmond are finishing the piece, their jeans covered with Jackson Pollock-like patterns, ca…
It’s just past 6pm on Thursday, Aug. 12 and Marina r…
We’ve all heard the stories of pandemic-related rest…
With what is seen as a water crisis solution in the …
Gary Meek’s two previous albums were “straight-ahead jazz,” he says. “All acoustic, and this Monterey-based saxophonist and keyboardist found himself missing his LA roots.”
As of Tuesday, Aug. 24, the Dixie Fire, the second l…
Proposals including luxurious and eco-friendly are a…
In the middle of training to become a therapist and with a bachelor’s degree in psychology under her belt already, Salinas-raised Diana Beltran began a train of thought that eventually evolved into a business. “I knew I wanted to help as many people as possible,” she says. And then one sleep…
Before it shut down for 15 months during Covid, Lynn…
Everything from how to use a tool to installing dryw…
Nearly five years after Pacific Grove officials broke ground with golden-hued shovels for construction of a wastewater reclamation plant on Point Pinos in hopes of creating revenue from the sale of recycled water and water credits, the city is finding out the financial returns aren’t as gold…
Four weeks ago, the five members of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors were feeling pressed: The Covid-19 delta variant was spreading, cases and hospitalizations were increasing and they were about to take their annual two-week summer break. Fearing another shutdown, they raced on July…
If the students of Salinas Union High School Distric…
On a fair-weather morning Thursday, Aug. 19, outgoin…
After a year off (you know why), Sand City’s West End Celebration is making a triumphant return for its 20th anniversary featuring local artists, crafters and four stages of live music. On that music roster is a recent transplant named Cindy Alexander who will be marking an occasion of her o…
Dan Sheehan still regards Saturday’s Cali Roots as a…
It ended in chaos, America’s almost-20-year disaster…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries mythologist Joseph Campbell advised us to love our fate. He said we should tell ourselves, “Whatever my fate is, this is what I need.” Even if an event seems inconvenient or disruptive, we treat it as an opportunity, as an interesting challenge. “If you bring…
