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Marcos Cabrera

  • Jan 23, 2021

What song do you play when you feel uncreative?

Coach and campaign consultant charged with rape being investigated by feds for possible money laundering.
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Coach and campaign consultant charged with rape being investigated by feds for possible money laundering.

  • Mary Duan
  • Updated Jul 17, 2019

As more alleged victims come forward to claim they were preyed upon by campaign consultant and North Salinas High School coach John Fickas, wh…

Artists respond to the Trump administration with creativity.
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Artists respond to the Trump administration with creativity.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Mar 2, 2017

The Trump era has begun. It was only a matter of time before artists, playwrights, musicians and the like responded. Oppression, they say, for…

Salinas elementary schools get a lesson in safer walking.
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Salinas elementary schools get a lesson in safer walking.

  • Marielle Argueza
  • Dec 8, 2016

A line of cars glimmers in the sunlight every weekday around 2:40pm as dozens of parents wait for their kids at Fremont Elementary School. Car…

A snapchat of Monterey County school districts.
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A snapchat of Monterey County school districts.

  • Alyssa Jeong Perry
  • Oct 6, 2016

Monterey County is a diverse region with 25 K-12 school districts serving more than 74,000 students from diverse backgrounds. The Weekly assem…

Two weeks before the final Mad Men episode, another TV show featured Monterey County.
Arts & Culture

Two weeks before the final Mad Men episode, another TV show featured Monterey County.

  • Walter Ryce
  • May 26, 2015

Last year, in August, a big, burly biker/former history teacher by the name of Stan Ellsworth, rode into town to visit a few Monterey County h…

Colleen Bailey talks about her leaving the National Steinbeck Center for the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Arts & Culture

Colleen Bailey talks about her leaving the National Steinbeck Center for the Monterey Jazz Festival.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 9, 2015

It was announced yesterday, by the leak of a confidential email, that Colleen Bailey, after six years on the job, will be stepping down as exe…

Three Salinas teens put together this evening's City of Letters Slam at Steinbeck Center.
Arts & Culture

Three Salinas teens put together this evening's City of Letters Slam at Steinbeck Center.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Dec 12, 2014

Now that the storm of the decade has passed, we can turn our attention (if it's not engaged in drying carpets and cleaning rain gutters) back …

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