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Ten companies are vying for Pacific Grove’s one and only retail cannabis license.
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Ten companies are vying for Pacific Grove’s one and only retail cannabis license.

  • Pam Marino
  • Oct 30, 2025

Ten companies are vying to become Pacific Grove’s first and only retail cannabis operator, city officials announced on Monday, Oct. 27, sharin…

The drip continues in MPWMD's efforts to buyout Cal Am.
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The drip continues in MPWMD's efforts to buyout Cal Am.

  • David Schmalz
  • Dec 21, 2023

It’s been an eventful few months for the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District in its yearslong effort to potentially buyout the local …

Renée Flanders is feeling bullish on Seaside’s sense of style, and opens a consignment shop.
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Renée Flanders is feeling bullish on Seaside’s sense of style, and opens a consignment shop.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jun 2, 2022

It was the height of internet shopping during the pandemic when Renée Flanders started consigning clothing online in January of 2021, and the …

Potential pitfalls remain for Seaside’s Campus Town project, but it could still break ground next year.
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Potential pitfalls remain for Seaside’s Campus Town project, but it could still break ground next year.

  • David Schmalz
  • Sep 23, 2021

For more than 20 years, the northern border of Seaside has looked like a ghost town, where dilapidated buildings from the former Fort Ord cont…

Local vendors finally break ground and open up their brick-and-mortar shops.
Eat + Drink

Local vendors finally break ground and open up their brick-and-mortar shops.

  • Marielle Argueza
  • Dec 4, 2019

Small businesses are booming all over the county. After years of informal pop-ups within the Salinas and Peninsula communities and a GoFundMe …

Quick Bites: Chef moves, major Holman Ranch change, new tasting room.
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Quick Bites: Chef moves, major Holman Ranch change, new tasting room.

  • Jul 5, 2017

I. Brand and Family's new tasting room at 19 East Carmel Valley Road (359-9834) has a nice spartan aesthetic to it.

Monterey County’s fast-casual food boom gets ready to explode.
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Monterey County’s fast-casual food boom gets ready to explode.

  • David Schmalz
  • Oct 20, 2016

On a bright, breezy mid-October day, Monterey developer Scott Negri stands near the center of his 3.7-acre property in Marina, just southeast …

Updated: The king is dead. Long live one Arnold Palmer.
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Updated: The king is dead. Long live one Arnold Palmer.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Updated Sep 26, 2016

Update: Bill Perocchi, CEO of Pebble Beach Company, just weighed in on the passing of Mr. Arnold Palmer with a statement from PBC:

A specialty grocery store could come to Rio Road.
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A specialty grocery store could come to Rio Road.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Jul 21, 2016

For more than two decades, a lot at the mouth. of Carmel Valley on Rio Road has remained vacant. (It was formerly an apartment building.) Now …

Affina gets a good fit in former Alaskan chef Matt Zimny.
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Affina gets a good fit in former Alaskan chef Matt Zimny.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Feb 11, 2016

Sometimes you don’t know your life is missing something until you run smack into it.

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