Nearly two years ago, Chartwell School received a $45 million donation from Charles “Chuck” and Claire Jacobson’s estate. Chuck, who had dyslexia, was a former board member at the K-12 private school, which focuses on students with dyslexia and other…
The sound of “Beep, beep” fills Tiffany Kellogg’s classroom at Monterey Park Elementary School in Salinas. One of the students, who is the “cashier,” is scanning products with a barcode scanner before her “customer” can take them with her.
The 11-unit apartment complex at 359 Larkin St. built in 1932 could be a beautiful vintage showpiece of Oldtown Monterey. Instead it’s a dilapidated property with crumbling rooftops, boarded-up windows and a once-manicured landscape choked with weeds. The buildings have…
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Researchers at CSU Monterey Bay were well underway in putting a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture into motion – already working with 25 local farmers to implement climate-smart practices on their farms – when they received…
The City of Monterey is broke, and in the coming weeks and months, it will be up to the community, and ultimately the City Council, as to how to go about fixing it.
In November 2023, workers at Smurfit Westrock in Salinas voted to switch their union representation to Teamsters Local 856. Days after the election, two of the company’s longtime workers who were active in the campaign were fired.
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On April 22, Nikki Nedeff, a volunteer with the Monterey chapter of the California Native Plant Society, addressed the Del Rey Oaks City Council with a seemingly simple ask. She wanted the city to give her and other CNPS volunteers…
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Imagine the kind of sleep you’d get if a construction crew set up shop near your house every night. You’d likely be grumpy, maybe stressed, especially if you were expected to perform your best at work.
It took over 14 years for the County of Monterey to pass a short-term rental ordinance last August. It took less than three months for the ordinance to be challenged in Monterey County Superior Court by the Monterey County Vacation…
