Happy 5th Anniversary to our friends at Sacramento Digs Gardening!
Celia Jiménez here, thinking about how I learned how to read. My earliest memory is saying the alphabet out loud and learning new words by breaking them into syllables.
Chef Fabian Di Paolo owns two Ducati motorcycles and loves to ride in his free time. So when he took over the helm at Shearwater Tavern—with the promise that weather in Monterey County is generally nice and calm—he took the…
David Schmalz here. When I first read Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1880 essay “The Old Pacific Capital” about a decade ago, I was enthralled: Here was a legendary writer who created a literary time capsule of the place as it existed…
Celia Jiménez here, thinking about the hard work of immigrants in the United States (and beyond), who have moved to another country seeking to increase their opportunities and persevere in a new environment, often speaking a different language.
Rey Mashayekhi here, thinking about one of the longest-running public issues in Monterey County and what can be done to address it.
The California Roots Music & Art Festival attracts about 12,000 people for each day of the four-day festival, making it exponentially larger than many of the towns I have called home in my life. And if Cali Roots is a…
Democracy is a beautiful thing but as we all know, it can be messy.
Just as many people on the Monterey Peninsula were making coffee, packing lunches and getting ready to head out the door to work and school this morning Thursday, June 1, the power went out for approximately 55,000 PG&E customers across…
One year after engaging in a scary standoff with local police, military veteran Vahe Ohanian says he’s getting the help he needs for the mental health and substance abuse issues that led to the incident, avoiding jail time in the…
Chartwell School, a private school in Seaside focusing on students with dyslexia and other learning differences, received a $45 million donation from Charles “Chuck” and Claire Jacobson’s estate.
Even though Fort Ord shuttered in the early 1990s, its legacy still looms large for several cities. The Fort Ord Reuse Authority, which was formed following that closure (and was forced by the state to shut down in 2020), largely…
Monterey County’s already shoddy roads are feeling further strain from this winter’s storms – leading to more potholes that are damaging cars and spurring resident complaints.
The life of a family of five changed instantly after Lucía Godínez Martínez was struck by a stray bullet on Saturday, May 20 when she was cooking breakfast for her kids. She is still recovering at the hospital and her…
When the new executive director of the Housing Authority of the County of Monterey, Zulieka Boykin, came on board in December of last year, she inherited a set of monumental challenges after a string of directors came and went over…
CLEANUP CREW
FREE SPEECH“The Hill We Climb” is a poem recited by then-22-year old poet Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration. It’s an ode to America as an unfinished but extremely valuable project; it calls for “a country committed to…
Police killed a suspect believed to have shot a Monterey County Sheriff’s deputy, ending a nine-hour standoff in Salinas on Wednesday, May 31, that prompted a widespread response from local, state and federal law enforcement.
Part of the Monterey County Weekly’s mission—to inspire independent thinking and conscious action, etc.—involves finding new ways to get readers engaged with the community, and the people behind the stories written.
Wednesday, May 31 was the last day of operations for Monterey County’s resource center and meal distribution site at Pajaro Middle School. The center opened on March 23, when with the reentry process started and hundreds of Pajaro residents where…
A Monterey County Sheriff's deputy is in the hospital undergoing surgery after being shot in Salinas on Wednesday morning, May 31—an incident that has sparked a widespread police response and an ongoing standoff with the suspect.
