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ALTERNATE UNIVERSE… Squid hunkered down in the lair through most of January to avoid the sneaky omicron variant and – knock coral – has avoided catching Covid. Somehow not everyone got the surge memo, like over at Hartnell Community College, where officials relaxed a vaccination mandate in a…

FREE SPEECHWhen a wildfire breaks out on a weekend, as it did on Jan. 21 in the case of the Colorado Fire, local media outlets might do two things at once to get fast-moving information out: Report on the ground, and contact a public information officer (PIO) at a fire agency for basics on f…

As any hiker knows, one of the best rewards for a steep climb is being able to point to the top of a mountain later and say “I went there.” If this kind of bragging motivates you, and you spend time in Big Sur, Mt. Manuel is one of the best. The 3,400-foot peak looms over the Big Sur Valley …