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BY SATURDAY, MARCH 18, THE STREETS OF PAJARO ARE DRY. It’s a contrast from one week earlier, when water rushed through town after the Pajaro River levee breached three miles upstream, and residents were awoken in the middle of the night by first responders urging them to evacuate immediately.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1926, HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THE MIDWES…
Artist Warren Chang lives and paints on a leafy, cal…
No one grows up thinking: I want to write subtitles for a living. Yet, “video content creation is skyrocketing,” says Max Troyer, an associate professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, where he teaches an audiovisual localization course – part of the two-year Tr…
Throughout her 30-plus-year career, the fiddler, gui…
Sometime late last year, Eric Tynan, general manager of the Castroville Community Services District, started noticing an unwelcome trend: The caps on the sides of fire hydrants in and around Castroville were starting to get stolen.
A Monterey pediatrician known for his anti-vax belie…
In the wake of the flooding that forced more than 2,…
On the morning of Friday, March 17 – nearly a week a…
It’s hard to say what, exactly, the philosophical animation Fulcrum, by CSU Monterey Bay animation expert Timothy David Orme, is about. The human condition, more than anything else, though a more literal description would be that it’s a film about the ocean of life and about rowing. If you h…
At first light on Saturday, March 11, members of the SPCA Monterey County’s disaster response team were on the ground in Pajaro, wading into flooded chicken coops to retrieve backyard flocks or rescuing dogs from the floodwaters that filled the town after an upstream levee breached just afte…
The sign on the Lighthouse Cinema in Pacific Grove s…
There are a gazillion ways to consume cannabis these…
In November 2020, after many restaurants nationwide closed permanently due to the ongoing pandemic, The Power Plant in Moss Landing did something unusual: It opened.
Thousands of families were forced to evacuate after …
Democracy is, by design, messy. The political party …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If we were to choose one person to illustrate the symbolic power of astrology, it might be Aries financier and investment banker J.P. Morgan (1837-1913). His astrological chart strongly suggested he would be one of the richest people of his era. The sun, Mercury, P…
