Restraining Order: Marina Coast’s attorney, Lloyd Lowrey, says a 1996 agreement requires that water on the Cemex property (pictured) stays in …
Downsizing may be all the rage, but Marina Coast Water District is looking to expand. The district board voted 4-1 on June 12 to begin annexin…
(UPDATE 6/21, 12:45pm—This morning the Public Utilities Commission approved the San Clemente Dam removal project, sanctioning the Sandoval alt…
Field of Greens: Even after undergoing a double mastectomy, Suzka Collins keeps volunteering in the Sand City community garden. “It’s a healin…
City leaders across California were shell-shocked when the California Supreme Court eliminated local redevelopment agencies last December. Now…
No Swimming: Culligan hauls its salty softener waste to the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency’s brine pond, where it’s diluted …
They make bathtubs cleaner, dishes shinier and hair silkier. But water softening systems could be bad news for the limited water supply in Mon…
New faces and old friends gather for another three days of magic at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival.
Color-Proof Blues: After Ray Charles heard 2012’s MBBF Battle of the Bands winner Paula Harris sing, he asked her, “Are you black or white? Be…
New faces and old friends gather for another three days of magic at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival.
“I been in the blues all my life,” Muddy Waters once said. “I’m still delivering ‘cause I got a long memory.”
Nitrogen Fixers: Moss Landing Marine Labs biologist Ross Clark estimates it would take about 200 acres of wetlands, at about $10,000 an acre f…