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What if ever-present recording devices led to accountability, not hostility?
Local Spin | Opinion

What if ever-present recording devices led to accountability, not hostility?

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jul 21, 2022

TWO SETS OF CIRCUMSTANCES, two communities divided. That’s what I am thinking about as a months-long saga concludes in Spreckels, and as a new…

Joullian Vineyards takes a note from the French, growing wine grapes with little irrigation.
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Joullian Vineyards takes a note from the French, growing wine grapes with little irrigation.

  • Christopher Neely
  • Jul 19, 2021

The strongest oaks grow against opposing winds, diamonds are made under pressure and, for Joullian Vineyard, roots under stress cultivate high…

The Carmel Fire flares up on Wednesday afternoon, destroying structures and prompting widespread evacuations.
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The Carmel Fire flares up on Wednesday afternoon, destroying structures and prompting widespread evacuations.

  • Bradley Zeve, Sara Rubin
  • Aug 19, 2020

The Carmel Fire erupted Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 18, quickly burning more than 1,000 acres with zero-percent containment on day one. Structures…

Family identifies suicide victim who started Tassajara Fire.
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Family identifies suicide victim who started Tassajara Fire.

  • Ana Ceballos
  • Sep 25, 2015

Steve McAlpine has been identified as the man who committed suicide on Sept. 19, and whose death was confirmed to be the cause of the destruct…

Suicide determined as definitive cause of Tassajara Fire.
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Suicide determined as definitive cause of Tassajara Fire.

  • Ana Ceballos
  • Sep 23, 2015

The burned body of a man, who authorities say committed suicide, has been determined as the source of the Tassajara Fire, which destroyed a nu…

Update: Tassajara Fire's cause may be linked to its one death.
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Update: Tassajara Fire's cause may be linked to its one death.

  • Ana Ceballos, Sara Rubin
  • Sep 20, 2015

One civilian was reported dead Sunday after a devastating fire scorched 1,200 acres along Tassajara and Cachagua roads in the Jamesburg area, …

Joullian Vineyards sells to mid-20s couple from Los Angeles.
Eat + Drink

Joullian Vineyards sells to mid-20s couple from Los Angeles.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Updated Sep 1, 2015

There's a real sense of place to the wines of Joullian Vineyards, a Carmel Valley/Cachagua-based winery that has crafted and won awards with i…

The bizarre tale of Cachagua's last cowboy heads to the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Arts & Culture

The bizarre tale of Cachagua's last cowboy heads to the Santa Cruz Film Festival.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Oct 24, 2014

Carmel Valley's most notorious cowboy once lassoed a horseback sheriff's deputy, yanked him to the ground and peed on him. And that's not even…

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