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It may be an apocryphal tale, but it’s said that when former president Barack Obama visited the Monterey Peninsula in 2018 and stayed at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, he saw the blighted coastline property at 484 Cannery Row – a ruinous patch of grass surrounded by a chain link fence – and said …
The ocean floor is just the surface of Kakani Katija…
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…
The space is not new. There has been a cannabis stor…
Hay’s Place is just good fun.
By 9pm on Friday night, Jan. 21, a vague, wine-color…
The Remembering: Reflections on Love, Art, Faith, He…
In the wake of the 2016 Soberanes Fire and subsequen…
Cat food was what tipped off a Hartnell College empl…
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…
The idea seems simple enough: Create a city-wide ren…
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 …
Since 2007, her name has been associated with J.S. B…
The mathematical premise for insurance companies is …
If you’re looking for the latest John Grisham novel …
Between 2018 and 2020, Monterey County permitted 43 accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, smaller homes typically constructed in backyards to provide additional housing. The number of ADUs constructed in the county was actually less than half of those permitted, 21, according to the Center for …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Helen Hunt Jackson…
How does the world get flipped on its head?