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THE RESIDENTS OF A NEW APARTMENT COMPLEX IN SALINAS HAVE BIG PLANS FOR THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. A community garden and a barbecue area. Maybe a calendar with everyone’s birthdays so the neighbors can celebrate each person’s special day. “And right here we’ll put a Christmas tree,” Maria Morales s…
The whole project came together by chance, and two y…
The world was a very different place when William Sh…
Almost five years after 56-percent of Monterey Count…
As dry times become a greater concern, taking full advantage of wet times becomes a greater priority. This is the idea behind a long – conceived $150 million tunnel project that would connect two of the county’s most important reservoirs, allowing the more common superfluous flows in one to …
Magical things happen to people in Naxos all the tim…
FREE SPEECHThe California Public Records Act requires that public agencies share, when requested, “any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business,” typically within 10 days of the receipt of such a request. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the requested …
There were no more reprieves in Sacramento for Calif…
This year’s Monterey Jazz Festival, the first since …
For students, back-to-school season is a time of exc…
BOOM AND BUST… One of Squid’s favorite running jokes, if you can call it that, is nothing more than the first two words of nearly every headline describing the latest bizarre crime out of the Sunshine State: “Florida man… ”
They don’t make musicians like Marty Stuart anymore.…
When the fog starts to clear and fewer tourists are …
Home field advantage has always been important to athletes, but for decades the student-athletes of Carmel High School have been limited to having that advantage in daylight only. For night home games they ride a bus to someone else’s turf. That could change under a proposal by the Carmel Un…
After 18 months of being stuck in our homes – if we …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Blogger AnaSophia was asked, “What do you find attractive in a person?” I’ll reproduce her reply because it’s a good time to think about what your answer would be. I’m not implying you should be looking for a new lover. I’m interested in inspiring you to ruminate a…