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AT 7:51PM ON A COLD TUESDAY NIGHT, customers make a steady stream in through the door at London Bridge Pub in Monterey. Tony Malokas greets many by name as they hand over a dollar bill, grab an answer sheet and retreat to their area of the sprawling bar. There’s no time to waste – trivia sta…
The drive to help others started with “little things…
In ancient Rome, the most sought-after wines – the o…
Back in the early 2000s, Kris Spencer was at the gym…
California’s Covid-19 State of Emergency Order offic…
During the succession of atmospheric rivers that swe…
In February, Salinas City Elementary School District announced it would eliminate several positions. On the layoff list was a position that alarmed many parents: the person in charge of recruiting students for the Migrant Education Program, a federal program that aids migrant students. Inste…
Sometime in the long process of developing an integr…
Black History Month may be over, but as we are often…
BUZZ OFF… Where Squid lives in an undersea lair, there are no mosquitoes to contend with. Sure, sea stars can be annoyingly slow-moving, but it’s nothing compared to those terrestrial pests. Squid does not envy the humans deemed responsible for mosquito control, but that is the job of the Mo…
Students griping about professors is not new, but a …
Electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation could pass over Marina in deciding where to build a factory.
In the roughly five years since it set up shop at Marina Municipal Airport, electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation has been a signpost for Monterey County’s economic potential – one where forward-thinking tech and manufacturing firms could help modernize the local economy beyond its traditi…
Jenny Webster is a retired Marina High School Englis…
When Mi Tierra market shut down for renovations last…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1993, I began work on …
Lost in all the manic coverage of the Chinese spy-balloon incident was an extraordinary act by Congress. On Feb. 9, with barely any discussion, the House of Representatives voted unanimously, 419-0, to pass House Resolution 104, “Condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s Use of a High-Altitud…
It was a pretty festive Zoom meeting on Monday, Feb.…
