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05/16/2024

Suffer no more, Big Sur readers. With the ahead-of-schedule reopening of Highway 1, the Big Sur Branch Library at Ripplewood Resort will open on Friday, May 17, resuming normal hours the following day. On Friday itself the library will be…

05/16/2024

The two Macy’s locations in Monterey County are not included in the company’s planned closures of 150 stores nationwide, a spokesperson confirmed to the Weekly.

05/15/2024

FREE SPEECHEvery year, the Pulitzer Prizes are awarded to celebrate the best in journalism, and the 2023 awards were announced on May 6. In the public service category, ProPublica was recognized for its “groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the…

05/15/2024

Two years after Amazon backed out of a massive warehouse project in Salinas, the online retail and web services giant confirmed it is revisiting its plans to build in Monterey County’s largest city.

05/15/2024

Six years ago, the County of Monterey signed on as a lead plaintiff in a landmark class action lawsuit brought by the State of California against major pharmaceutical companies in the wake of the misery and deaths caused by prescription…

05/15/2024

The paved, two-lane portion of Highway 1 through Big Sur is an attraction unto itself. It’s also the artery that residents, employees, emergency responders and tourists use to get to and from the remote community. With access limited on all…

05/15/2024

For the past couple of years, the state has pushed to transition K-12 campuses into community schools, designed to serve not only as a space to learn but a hub where parents and students can get support for needs like…

05/15/2024

On May 9, staff from the Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency presented its board a long-awaited study about the so-called Deep Aquifers, which have been increasingly mined in recent years as seawater intrusion marches inland toward the city of…

05/15/2024

OPEN HOUSING

05/15/2024

Celia Jiménez here, thinking about El Rey in downtown Salinas and the place it will become, from the new large black and white sign outside to what it hides behind closed doors.

05/15/2024

If you like house music, you need to act fast, because sometimes booking decisions by Compact Disco, the only house music club in Monterey, are made fast. We just learned that one of two members of Gettoblaster, a house and…

05/14/2024

Pam Marino here, left scratching my head as I’ve been digging into the County of Monterey’s draft 2023-2031 Housing Element, released just last week. I’m not the only one: Critics are starting to point out deficiencies in the 985-page element,…

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