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IMAGINE BEING IN A CAFE SOMEWHERE IN MONTEREY COUNTY, ordering a coffee and croissant. After receiving both, you sit down at a table to read a newspaper, perhaps, or engage with your digital device. And before you take your first sip of coffee, you notice the lid is slightly opaque, and has …
Thomas Merrill has left a lot of other race car driv…
New York City has a way of calling to every corner of the globe. Though the big city may be a far cry from the coastal lifestyle in Monterey, we can thank transplanted jazz guitarist Peter Barnes Martin for bringing us a taste of it.
Saturday, April 29 was Independent Bookstore Day. De…
That there are military students at the Defense Lang…
By passing a new agricultural preservation ordinance last month, Gonzales city officials and local developers believe they’re one step closer to annexing some 770 acres of surrounding farmland – potentially leading to more than 3,000 new housing units that would transform the Salinas Valley …
Lawyers representing Monterey County Jail inmates in…
There is a group of friends picking desperately for …
Monterey County knows James Michael Dorsey well from his books and talks, including the ongoing “Before They Vanish” travelogue series in the Monterey Public Library the third Friday of each month through June. Dorsey has published two books based on his travels to some of the most remote pl…
The city of Soledad is undergoing a transformation. …
There was a time when you could order a margarita – …
“We’re not a standard doughnut shop.” That’s how Chr…
On July 6, 2016, Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez pulled over 32-year-old Philando Castile for a broken taillight near Minneapolis. The officer asked Castile for his license and registration; as he reached, Yanez shot and killed Castile.
In the wake of flood damage from this past winter’s …
Life post-incarceration is a gauntlet of red tape, s…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before forming the band called The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney performed under various other names: the Quarrymen, Japage 3, and Johnny and the Moondogs. I suspect you are currently at your own equivalent of the Johnny and the Moondogs …
The story of the last few years of Adnan Nijmeddin’s…
