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BEFORE THEY GET TO READING A BOOK CALLED ANIMAL ADAPTATION, third-graders in a classroom at Laurel Wood Elementary School in Salinas are working on pronunciation. Teacher Kelly Rae Swanson writes vocabulary words on the chalkboard. “Everybody say ‘traction,’” Swanson says. The students respo…
For over a decade, Martha Zepeda Zarate of Soledad h…
In the minutes before the first county election resu…
As rain poured off and on in Pacific Grove on Electi…
Unless you are actually participating in one – say, marching – parades are a leisurely pastime. Sit or stand, wave, applaud, gather candy tossed from a passing float… to save for the kids, of course. Most parades coincide with a celebration. The 12th annual Veterans Day Parade in Salinas is …
WORKSHOPPING IT… Squid loves theoretical questions. For example: If a piece of bull kelp falls in the ocean, but no one is around to hear it, did it really make a sound? If a meeting of Greenfield City Council references only itself, was it really about anything at all?
Dozens of campaign signs in the front yard announced…
A raucous cheer went up in a corner of Oscar’s Playg…
When you think about it, the popularity of tofu and …
After Salinas native David Estrada graduated from Hartnell College, he found himself lacking a career direction. He worked odd jobs, and was a teller at a credit union when al-Qaeda coordinated an attack on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. He found a sense of purpose and enlisted in the Marine Co…
Thursday, Nov. 17 is shaping up to be a momentous da…
Tina Nieto made history on Tuesday, Nov. 8. She is p…
North County native Glenn Church seems poised to win as Monterey County supervisor for District 2 in his race against Regina Gage. As of 8am Wednesday, Nov. 9, Church led with 59 percent of the vote, compared to Gage’s 41 percent.
Facing Seaside started as a 2021 project by The West…
Local indigenous people open a door to the public to…
Nadia Mendoza was standing in line at the grocery store when hit with the urge to volunteer. For Francisco Narewski, the motivation stems from something more traumatic. Firefights, death, his wounds from a roadside explosive device – none of it would ease from his memory.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you Aries people are…
Among the viral videos of the protests in Iran, perh…
The phrase “trust but verify” became famous in the U…
