Monterey County Weekly Articles

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

OPEN HOUSING

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.

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…

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,…

A portion of Highway 1 in Big Sur that has been shut down for more than a month due to a slip-out just south of Rocky Creek Bridge—forcing residents and visitors to traverse the one-lane section via twice-daily convoys—will reopen…

The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation applied for designation as a National Historic Landmark, and received unanimous support from the National Historic Landmark Committee during a meeting on Tuesday, May 14.

Many years ago, I nervously walked across the stage in cap and gown inside the stadium at San Diego State University to receive my diploma. It was an exciting moment, one that I know thousands of students at Monterey Peninsula…

A suspect who hit two Seaside Police officers with a slingshot is recovering after an officer shot him during a confrontation on Fremont Boulevard and Playa Avenue on Monday, May 13.

Sol Treasures and the Robert Stanton Theatre showed their first-ever Broadway show for all ages over the past two weekends. They chose Fiddler on the Roof that debuted on Broadway in 1964, followed by a successful film in 1971.

From the start of Sunday’s Motul Course de Monterey, it appeared as if the polesitters in each class would distance themselves from the field. But strategic decisions–and a daring pass with minutes to go–upset the early storyline.

Happy Mother’s Day to any and all who are, or act as, mothers in the world. Pam Marino here, with the story of a man any mother would be proud of—and who was a tremendous help to his mom and…

Ever since the track was resurfaced last year, track records have fallen as the different racing series return to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. And Saturday was no exception, as Sebastien Bourdais posted a lap of 1:12.445 around the 2.238-mile track…