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AFTER HE RETIRED FROM THE NFL IN 1989, former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Ron Johnson moved back to the place he grew up, Monterey County. He initially tried his hand as a stockbroker at a Carmel-based financial firm, but something about the career path just didn’t feel right. A few ye…
AFTER 16 YEARS AT THE HELM, Dan Baldwin, president/C…
For years, fall brings a familiar kind of smell in M…
Back in February of 2025, Deputy Monterey County Cou…
More landscaping and a better parking plan was what the Carmel City Council asked for last fall from a proposed JB Pastor mixed-use building on Dolores Street, the vision of Monaco developer Patrice Pastor, who named the building after his father. Over a year later, Pastor’s company, Esperan…
Elaine Sherer steps inside the empty shell of what w…
Since he took over as executive director at Access M…
During the day, the Golden State Theatre looks as if…
Ronnie Randon did not learn healthy ways to deal wit…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is an old way of ma…
Monica Loncola has many talents. Many of them become strikingly obvious when she sits and, if time allows, draws behind a simple desk on an October afternoon in the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History’s Bird Gallery.
Passersby on Alvarado Street may have noticed the co…
When the first star appears in the sky on Christmas …
Kevin Dayton is a policy wonk, by nature and by profession. He built a career out of keeping tabs on dozens of government agencies and updating his clients on issues that may matter to them.
In the 2010s, I was working for a nonprofit when I asked our community kitchen to describe its wish list. This organization made daily meals for hungry people and I figured they would pass me a list of goods like canned beans and peanut butter, which I would then obediently share with my audience.
The play was written in 1664, but belongs to 2026.
