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For the first time in almost four years, Nacimiento-Fergusson Road is open to through-traffic.
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For the first time in almost four years, Nacimiento-Fergusson Road is open to through-traffic.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Nov 21, 2024

The Santa Lucia Mountains are deceptively rugged. Between Carmel Valley Road to the north and Highway 46 to the south, in San Luis Obispo Coun…

For some, 2017 has brought too much of good thing – rain.
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For some, 2017 has brought too much of good thing – rain.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jan 19, 2017

It was around 9:30pm on Jan. 8 when Carmel Valley resident Gary Briant, who was working on his motorcycles, saw water coming in under his gara…

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

Point Lobos ranger takes environmental education virtual.
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Point Lobos ranger takes environmental education virtual.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Nov 17, 2016

On a cliff above Whalers Cove, in front of an iPad mounted to a tripod, Daniel Williford, an interpreter at the Point Lobos State Natural Rese…

Monterey County's oldest redwood still stands after Soberanes Fire.
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Monterey County's oldest redwood still stands after Soberanes Fire.

  • Bradley Zeve
  • Aug 11, 2016

Facing the Soberanes fire head-on is not for the meek. Yet some long-time residents of the county didn’t run for their lives – they didn’t eve…

Big Sur's condors appear unharmed by the Soberanes Fire, for now.
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Big Sur's condors appear unharmed by the Soberanes Fire, for now.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jul 28, 2016

In the summer of 2008, when the Basin Complex Fire raged though the Santa Lucia Mountains, Condor #477 was only a chick, and too young to flee…

Delivering the Monterey County Weekly presents unique discoveries.
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Delivering the Monterey County Weekly presents unique discoveries.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Jul 7, 2016

While a number of names grace these pages every week, there are dozens of people who work behind the scenes to keep independent journalism ali…

California State Parks advances plan to create new park in Carmel.
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California State Parks advances plan to create new park in Carmel.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Jun 2, 2016

California State Parks is looking to reshape the visitor experience at Carmel River State Beach by creating a new state park that would encomp…

Jack English, a Ventana Wilderness outdoorsman, dies at 96.
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Jack English, a Ventana Wilderness outdoorsman, dies at 96.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Mar 10, 2016

Jack English, who found respite from society in a remote cabin in the Ventana Wilderness for 13 years, died on March 3. He was 96, and had bee…

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