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03/22/2024

Caroline Meister left the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, located at the end of Tassajara Road deep in the Los Padres National Forest, for a hike around 10am on Monday morning, March 18.

03/21/2024

Sara Rubin here, feeling the ache of conflict and violence and suffering around the world. Headlines this morning informed me of mass rape and widespread violence in Haiti, catastrophic hunger in Gaza and chronic cartel control and violence in Mexico.…

03/21/2024

The 2024 Asilomar Literary Festival is a creation of the nonprofit team behind Literary America almanac, created in Sacramento by Russian expats with a passionate desire to write in Russian while living in a foreign land.

03/21/2024

There are bits of conventional wisdom that just sound right.

03/21/2024

The Pacific Grove City Council voted 4-2 on Wednesday, March 20 to once again stop a proposed skatepark project.

03/20/2024

The Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) has been a hub for all things artsy since its inception in 1982. In 2016, the organization held a breakfast with artists and art supporters, whose number-one complaint was no affordable art studio…

03/20/2024

In January 2017, Monterey County was hit with an onslaught of storms, exacerbating damage in Big Sur and Carmel Valley from the 2016 Soberanes Fire, which left burn scars on 132,127 acres that were more prone to erosion and runoff.

03/20/2024

About 100 people rallied outside of a Pajaro Valley Unified School District board meeting on Wednesday, March 13, demanding the district bring back Community Responsive Education.

03/20/2024

IN THE ZONE

03/20/2024

On Tuesday, March 19, Salinas City Council voted unanimously to appoint René Mendez as the city manager, filling the city’s top staff position.

03/20/2024

Cecily Salazar is a doula, a non-medical support person trained and certified to care for pregnant women before, during and after giving birth. “It stemmed from my own birthing experiences,” says the mom of two boys.

03/20/2024

FREE SPEECHIt’s typical for social media companies to collect and store users’ data. ByteDance, the China-based owner of TikTok, is no exception. But U.S. lawmakers have long had the app in their sights due to fears that ByteDance could turn…

03/20/2024

FREE SPEECHIt’s typical for social media companies to collect and store users’ data. ByteDance, the China-based owner of TikTok, is no exception. But U.S. lawmakers have long had the app in their sights due to fears that ByteDance could turn…

03/20/2024

David Schmalz here. When I first came to the Weekly in 2013, the “housing crisis” was not yet a buzzword. It wasn’t that it didn’t exist, but rents were cheaper, and on the Peninsula, the moratorium on new water meters…

03/19/2024

Celia Jiménez here, thinking about the upcoming stadium for Marina High School.

03/19/2024

Patients and providers agree that even with health insurance, the costs of health care can be inordinately expensive. That is something that Dr. Steve Packer, CEO of Montage Health and Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, acknowledged on Friday, March…

03/19/2024

Patients and providers agree that even with health insurance, the costs of health care can be inordinately expensive. That is something that Dr. Steve Packer, CEO of Montage Health and Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, acknowledged on Friday, March…

03/19/2024

Five men incarcerated in Monterey County Jail are now facing additional charges after they reportedly attacked a group of deputies on Sunday, March 17.

03/18/2024

Erik Chalhoub here, hoping my home internet service is 100-percent reliable (ha!) if AT&T’s request to eliminate landline service is approved.

03/18/2024

Seaside Police announced the March 15 arrest of a teacher at Chartwell School for making "sexual advances" to a student.

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