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IN REALITY, ON A WARM OCTOBER AFTERNOON IN THE YEAR 2021, PK Swartz, age 13, is sitting at a table inside a small room in a building on Pacific Street in Monterey playing the video game Overwatch. There are cords everywhere – ethernet cables and mouse cables and power cords. The room is crow…
People are more comfortable around those who can rel…
Bella Lofaso holds a stuffed chicken. It’s just a bi…
After being laid off due to Covid, a Seaside resident started a soap company, and business is brisk.
In December of 2020, desperate to generate some income, Forbes started making soaps in his garage…
The U.S. Army’s Defense Language Institute confirmed…
Here’s an innovative way to get around the much-publicized supply chain holdups this holiday season: Give the gift of an experience…
Ostensibly, Seaside has a water problem: The Seaside…
ON POINT… If you would rather pick up your Thanksgiving meal than prepare it yourself, there are ample options. Among them, The Grill At Point Pinos is offering meals for pickup complete with all the traditional Thanksgiving staples. $32 per person, or order a larger portion that serves 12 p…
The learning curve between operating a business in t…
The world went so gaga for “My Girl” that The Beatle…
Although it’s geographically nearby, Silicon Valley …
With agriculture dominating the landscape of South County it’s a focus of the community, even in the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District where ag career programs are common. Greenfield High School Principal Janet Matos saw a gap however, when one of her daughters – both at…
Chef Jerry Regester lugs a tray from the kitchen at …
There is no current link between the Monterey Penins…
Enjoying the outdoors need not require breaking a sweat or getting wet, or even being in nature – sometimes it can be a more intellectual exercise. That is certainly the case in downtown Monterey and nearby Lower Presidio Historic Park and Cannery Row, where visitors and locals alike can che…
Allison Peach says the Baked Apple – a cocktail she …
Change is afoot off the Central Coast. Since Nov. 8,…
Los Angeles and Long Beach ports have a backup of ca…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) had many ups and downs. He was one of Germany’s greatest poets and philosophers, but he also endured more emotional distress than most people. His biographer wrote, “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sink…
As COP26 drew to a close with the Glasgow Climate Pa…