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Bedside singers offer comfort to those nearing death or in moments of healing.
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Bedside singers offer comfort to those nearing death or in moments of healing.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Jan 8, 2026

“We’ve planned something for you,” says Susie Joyce, who in 2011 started a local chapter of Threshold Choir, a California nonprofit whose memb…

A local artist introduces her art and philosophy into a health-care space.
Arts & Culture

A local artist introduces her art and philosophy into a health-care space.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Oct 24, 2025

Artist Jessica Dune was able to observe beauty in her mother’s passing and make it part of her artistic process that she now shares with other…

After tragedy strikes, a father-son duo finds solace in music.
Opinion

After tragedy strikes, a father-son duo finds solace in music.

  • Pam Marino
  • Sep 25, 2025

Pam Marino here, excited for tomorrow night’s opening of the 68th Monterey Jazz Festival at the historic Monterey County Fairgrounds, which ha…

Journalist Erika Mahoney became a character in a tragic story. She’s telling it in a new podcast.
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Journalist Erika Mahoney became a character in a tragic story. She’s telling it in a new podcast.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jun 19, 2025

March 22, 2021 started out as just “an ordinary Monday,” Erika Mahoney says. At the time, she was the news director at the local NPR station, …

A former KAZU journalist finds power in telling her story on her own terms.
Opinion

A former KAZU journalist finds power in telling her story on her own terms.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jun 17, 2025

Sara Rubin here, wishing that I was here to tell a story of triumph, about a local journalist who’s taking her career in a creative new direct…

For Kathy Griffin, comedy is like a big hug that may have saved her life.
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For Kathy Griffin, comedy is like a big hug that may have saved her life.

  • Pam Marino
  • Jun 10, 2024

Pam Marino here. I hope everyone had a good weekend. It was one of those weekends with lots of activities to choose from in the county: The Ar…

Rethinking life after prison as offering a world of opportunity requires a new approach to healing.
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Rethinking life after prison as offering a world of opportunity requires a new approach to healing.

  • Bernie Gomez
  • May 4, 2023

Life post-incarceration is a gauntlet of red tape, stigmas and unfair policies that marginalize those previously incarcerated beyond our time …

Call me by my name, and other exercises in empathy from the local prison in Soledad.
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Call me by my name, and other exercises in empathy from the local prison in Soledad.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Jan 19, 2023

SERGIO ZARAZUA IS 37 NOW, AND HE HAS BEEN LOCKED UP SINCE HE WAS 15. He keeps his head and face clean-shaven, which makes his already large ey…

After a shooting in Colorado Springs, the community comes together to protect LGBTQ+ members.
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After a shooting in Colorado Springs, the community comes together to protect LGBTQ+ members.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Nov 24, 2022

There was no AA meeting at the Epiphany Lutheran & Episcopal Church in Marina on Monday, Nov. 21, because the space was urgently needed fo…

For those times when words won’t cut it, art therapy can provide a path.
Arts & Culture

For those times when words won’t cut it, art therapy can provide a path.

  • Tajha Chappellet-Lanier
  • Jan 20, 2022

Sometimes, words fail. Writers aren’t generally in the business of admitting this but it’s true – there are things that cannot, or cannot adeq…

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