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  • Oct 9, 2025

The Carmel Foundation

Carmel officials are offering mental health support in the wake of shooting incident.
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Carmel officials are offering mental health support in the wake of shooting incident.

  • Pam Marino
  • Nov 1, 2024

The tragic shooting death of a young man in Carmel experiencing a mental health incident on Friday, Oct. 25 had a big impact on residents and …

Kim Stemler is leaving wine growers organization for Carmel Foundation.
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Kim Stemler is leaving wine growers organization for Carmel Foundation.

  • Pam Marino
  • Apr 10, 2024

Kim Stemler, executive director of the Monterey County Vintners and Growers Association, is leaving the position after nearly 11 years to take…

Quick Bites: New tasting room, new artichoke restaurant and new Turkish spot.
Eat + Drink

Quick Bites: New tasting room, new artichoke restaurant and new Turkish spot.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Feb 15, 2017

The wine boom continues to go bonkers in Carmel Valley.

The very best handful of new restaurants for Monterey County in 2016.
Eat + Drink

The very best handful of new restaurants for Monterey County in 2016.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Dec 29, 2016

It was an omen, a hint, a harbinger. At our booth sat Giuseppe Panzuto, author of arguably 2015’s best new Monterey County restaurant, il Tega…

Quick Bites: Foragers Fest, chowder fries and $500K wine theft verdict.
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Quick Bites: Foragers Fest, chowder fries and $500K wine theft verdict.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Dec 27, 2016

The annual Big Sur Foragers Festival, happening Jan. 13-15, will not happen in iconic Big Sur.

Artifacts: Pleasure and profit, drone quilts, hiking Monterey Downs
Arts & Culture

Artifacts: Pleasure and profit, drone quilts, hiking Monterey Downs

  • Walter Ryce
  • Oct 15, 2015

• Monterey Public Library rewards reading. I mean, reading is its own reward, but for teens in middle or high school, the library is running a…

ARTIFACTS: The starter gun for Car Week, She Kills Monsters kills it at Western Stage, truth-telling at Old Capitol Books.
Arts & Culture

ARTIFACTS: The starter gun for Car Week, She Kills Monsters kills it at Western Stage, truth-telling at Old Capitol Books.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Aug 6, 2015

• This might be the very first public event of Car Week. Cibo Ristorante (full disclosure: this reporter bussed tables there when he was 18) h…

A baby boomer jokes and sings odes to his generation. Will Carmel audiences dig it?
Arts & Culture

A baby boomer jokes and sings odes to his generation. Will Carmel audiences dig it?

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jun 3, 2015

Stand-up/singing comedian Richard Stockton—born in 1949 in Bakersfield, raised in SoCal and Sacramento, and living now in Santa Cruz—is all ab…

Artifacts 01.29.15
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Artifacts 01.29.15

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 29, 2015

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