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ANNIJKE WADE TWICE HAD TO FIND HER WAY INTO THE WORLD OF MOUNTAIN BIKING.
The sign tells you that Steve Saunders is a master j…
A group of 13 Hartnell College students collaborativ…
Starting in the late 1960s, Sand City, population 32…
FREE SPEECHAs corporate owners have slashed staff at many local newspapers, the Digital First Media-owned Santa Cruz Sentinel was not spared. But in 2019, two former Sentinel reporters, Kara Meyberg Guzman and Stephen Baxter, saw a need to fill the void and created a new digital publication,…
Every year, when cycling enthusiasts from around the…
When the board of directors of the Monterey Peninsul…
It’s not always easy to come up with a new dish, or even a twist on tradition. So Stephen Pacania was proud when his carrot tartare turned out well. Justin Robarge, the chef at Folktale Winery in Carmel Valley, appreciated the flavor as much as the playful name. Tartare would imply raw carro…
When Music Director Jayce Ogren takes the baton and …
Three days after David Portner’s 44th birthday, he w…
For grower Javier Zamora, this winter was an unprecedented procession of weather-related misfortune. January’s storms turned nearly half of the roughly 70 growable acres on his farm, JSM Organics in the Pajaro Valley, into “a lake overnight.” Weeks after the waters receded, March’s storms bl…
On March 9, staff at The Peregrine Fund, a nonprofit…
Jose Perez and Diego Sevillano are seated in a corne…
Years after Carmel’s attempt to find someone to restore the Flanders Mansion fell apart, a candidate has stepped forward to revive that idea – albeit in a slightly different format. Mike Buffo, documentary filmmaker and founder of the Carmel-based production company House of 8 Media, envisio…
It’s been only four months since Joint Venture, a ca…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In English, the phrase “g…
As Israel commemorates its 75th anniversary this month, the country is facing one of its most significant challenges since its establishment. Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is pushing forward an extremist, ethnonationalist, anti-democratic agenda that would undermine judicial independence, …
There are more than a few doomsayers out there with predictions about how journalism is dying and Gen Z doesn’t have the attention span to read a news story. After spending a couple of hours in a high school newspaper classroom, I’m here to report: Those reports are greatly exaggerated.
