Issue Archive
It’s evening, August 26, 1873, and Tiburcio Vasquez – a career outlaw and native son of Monterey – is about to become the most wanted man in America.
Andi Elder, 58, was born in Austin, Texas. Early on …
Many events of our lives whir by, largely unobserved…
The archives at the National Steinbeck Center consist of three rooms. There is a reading room toward the front, where scholars work on dissertations about Salinas’ most famous son and enjoy a beautiful model of The Western Flyer, the boat that took John Steinbeck down to Baja in 1940 and bec…
It’s been exactly two years since our world was upen…
On March 17, 2020, Monterey County Health Officer Ed…
There’s always a good reason why a ghost town becomes one.
Gov. Gavin Newsom sparked excitement locally last July when he signed SB 156, securing a historic $6 billion investment in high-speed, broadband internet access. The money, anchored by federal pandemic relief, would finance infrastructure to connect underserved Californians – many in rural a…
Many Seaside residents took to social media Friday n…
There are few families in Monterey County that have …
WAFFLES BY THE WATER… L’aubette Bakery is now serving fresh, baked-to-order Belgian waffles on Sundays from 8am-noon just off Cannery Row. The waffle of the month for March is a churro waffle. It comes loaded with all the key ingredients and flavors you might expect: Ceylon cinnamon sugar, M…
We should probably show more respect to the traditio…
A fun way to get outside while spending a day with your family or hanging out with your friends is to attend Ciclovía Salinas. Ciclovía means “bike path” in Spanish and that’s what the event creates – a temporary bike path where instead of the usual car traffic, people of all ages can walk, …
Without federal dollars, the county government would…
Imagine you’re flying into Monterey Regional Airport…
When the Weekly last wrote about Anne Ylvisaker in 2…
A SALACIOUS SECOND ACT… Squid doesn’t read much erot…
On Friday, March 11, when the Board from Gonzales Un…
If there’s one thing the last three years should hav…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Singer, dancer and comedian Sammy Davis Jr. disliked the song “The Candy Man,” but he recorded it anyway, heeding his advisers. He spent just a brief time in the studio, finishing his vocals in two takes. “The song is going straight to the toilet,” he complained, “…
