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Carmel City Council opens a discussion on closing downtown blocks to traffic for open-air dining.
Eat + Drink

Carmel City Council opens a discussion on closing downtown blocks to traffic for open-air dining.

  • Pam Marino
  • May 13, 2020

When the day comes that dine-in eating is allowed to resume in Monterey County, some large restaurants might be able to make the economics wor…

Former Monterey city manager Fred Meurer may go to work for Sand City.
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Former Monterey city manager Fred Meurer may go to work for Sand City.

  • David Schmalz
  • Nov 14, 2018

Fred Meurer, who served as Monterey's city manager for 27 years until retiring in 2013, may again find himself at the helm of a city. 

Squid evaluates the evaluation process of Monterey's highest-ranking managers.
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Squid evaluates the evaluation process of Monterey's highest-ranking managers.

  • Squid
  • Dec 7, 2015

Review Preview…Squid gets a lot of feedback—both cheers and jeers—from the land of social media. Squid sprays ink while pondering the folly of…

Monterey gives its model a spit and polish to show off for defense community.
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Monterey gives its model a spit and polish to show off for defense community.

  • Mar 19, 2015

A group of speakers addressed a crowd in Monterey Conference Center’s Serra Ballroom March 16, discussing the role of partnerships between mil…

Monterey City Council To Spend Homeless Funds on Police, Revive Sit-Lie Discussion
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Monterey City Council To Spend Homeless Funds on Police, Revive Sit-Lie Discussion

  • Sara Rubin
  • Oct 24, 2013

There was something almost Orwellian about the tone Monterey City Council took Wednesday night with a 3-2 vote to beef up downtown police presence. 

As Cannery Row Marketplace Faces Foreclosure, Neighbors See Possibility for a Park
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As Cannery Row Marketplace Faces Foreclosure, Neighbors See Possibility for a Park

  • Sara Rubin
  • Aug 22, 2013

When Cal Poly students went scrambling along the fenced-off rocks of a vacant Cannery Row spot earlier this summer, the property owner, Palo A…

Monterey might let its affordable housing inventory dwindle.
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Monterey might let its affordable housing inventory dwindle.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jul 11, 2013

The details of the love triangle and the drugs are a little hazy, but Robert Allen Woods remembers clearly why he got on a bus to Monterey in …

Preservationists Take Hardline Against Restaurant in Cooper Molera Adobe
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Preservationists Take Hardline Against Restaurant in Cooper Molera Adobe

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jul 4, 2013

When Frances Molera died in 1968, she donated the Cooper Molera Adobe in downtown Monterey to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a …

Monterey City Council Approves $105 Million Budget
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Monterey City Council Approves $105 Million Budget

  • Sara Rubin
  • Updated Jun 27, 2013

Monterey City Council unanimously approved "a precariously balanced and very status quo oriented" budget on Wednesday, after some disagreement…

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