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There are certain signs announcing the coming holida…
When Bob Brunson tells a story, he has a habit of in…
Local English actor F. Howard Burnham brings Charles Dickens’ 'A Christmas Carol' to life in Carmel.
Local English actor F. Howard Burnham has been maste…
FREE SPEECHOverall, 2023 was not a good year for the media industry. The firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reports that 19,881 jobs have been eliminated from the industry in 2023 year to date. To put that in context, Axios reports that figure is six times higher than the number of indust…
We get it – you’ve been busy. Or perhaps you’ve been…
A silver steamer with a batch of tamales cooks, fill…
Celebrating the season with a strong holiday beer is tradition at many breweries. Consider Delirium Noel and St. Bernardus Christmas Ale from Belgium, or the coveted Samichlaus, brewed annually on Dec. 6 by Schloss Eggenberg in Austria.
It seemed like a good idea in 1972 when the Californ…
A beloved 37-year-old, year-round Christmas store, K…
Back in the winter of 1997, when an El Niño weather …
Along some rural Monterey County roads, you can smell trash even before you see it. Bags of household garbage, tires, furniture and kitchen appliances getting dumped on the sides of isolated roads has been a longstanding issue. For decades, the Illegal Dumping and Litter Abatement Task Force…
Over the years, Monterey Peninsula Unified School Di…
In the yard of the Gathering for Women in Monterey, …
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History has been…
MERRY SQUIDMAS… The holidays are always one of Squid’s favorite times of the year, because people come together and celebrate. One thing they’re celebrating, whether or not they know it, is the return of longer days – Christmas is a made-up birthday party rooted in pagan tradition. Squid als…
Fertilizer nitrate pollution is killing our communities. We must stop this public health crisis now.
When you turn on your tap, is the water safe to drin…
If you’d told me 20 years ago that in a professional setting I would be asked to close my eyes and do a breathing exercise, I would have laughed. Or maybe I would have just been confused – there’s a pretty good chance I didn’t even know what a breathing exercise was.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries educator Booker T. …
