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WHEN LORI LONG AND MARK CONTRERAS MET ON A DATING SITE IN 2015, she thought coffee would be the right approach for a first date. But Contreras could right away tell there was a connection. “I already know I want to spend time with you, and I want to take you to dinner,” Long remembers him sa…
Mel Mason was born in Kentucky, and moved to Seaside…
Despite their renewed popularity, cocktails of the g…
Much discussion this year about the state of the agriculture industry in Monterey County has been about how productivity suffered from winter storms. But the annual crop report, released Tuesday, July 25, looks back to the calendar year of 2022, when the overall output for the ag industry wa…
Chef Jonny Black is fanatical about sourcing. He’s b…
We all have questions. Some of us wonder if artifici…
Adrian Thomas Gonzalez is the young man with whom the Hey Dad, I Don’t Like You book project started. It is his story that is at the heart of the project – a difficult relationship with his father that he says he has paid for with mental health issues since he was a teenager, until a family …
A new, Soledad-based startup has launched a pilot pr…
A line of four flags over Jules Simoneau Plaza – als…
What if a single, pedestrian-only bridge was a missi…
That the rents would go up by 3 percent for market-rate tenants at Marina’s city-owned townhome complexes – Abrams Park and Preston Park, 548 units of U.S. Army-built housing on the former Fort Ord – was not in question when the Marina City Council voted 5-0 on July 18 to accept new budgets …
New Canon Theatre Company is offering an invitation …
Since settling a class-action lawsuit over poor conditions at Monterey County Jail in 2015, the county and Wellpath, its health care provider at the jail, have been required to allow court-appointed neutral monitors at the facility. Those monitors have written reports documenting the state o…
About 150 people showed up for an open house on the …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are about to read a thunderbolt of sublime prophecies. It’s guaranteed to nurture the genius in your soul’s underground cave. Are you ready? 1. Your higher self will prod you to compose a bold prayer in which you ask for stuff you thought you weren’t supposed t…
Can you imagine speaking Kurdish at home your whole …
Where we live affects how we live. It’s not a new id…
