Erik Chalhoub here. Last week, I attended Mic’d Up at the Press Club, where Dr. Susan Swick of Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health spoke about mental fitness, an appropriate topic given the talk was two days after…
There’s more to Election Day than campaign platforms. While candidates run on policy ideas and promises, they are human beings behind all those glossy mailers. The Weekly has made a tradition of asking about some of that behind-the-scenes work of…
Dave Faries here, sharing one of my favorite passages from a rare memoir.
This election cycle, there were 14 school bond measures across different school districts in Monterey County to improve aging facilities and provide affordable housing for staff. Most are leading with a yes vote at the polls and 12 of them…
There is a photograph of Anne Rasmussen wearing her dress blues. It dates from World War II, when she served in the WAVES, or Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service, a branch of the Navy.
Approximately 150 people gathered at Window on the Bay in Monterey on the morning of Saturday, Nov. 9, to be in community and show solidarity after the loss of Vice President Kamala Harris to Donald Trump in the Nov. 5…
Carmel Unified School District will have a new board of trustees after the Nov. 5 election, with three new candidates who won open seats as the district transitions from at-large to district-based elections.
Agata Popęda here. Belle Yang is one of the most interesting people I’ve met since I joined the Weekly more than three years ago. Her aura is special and soothing.
In what could be a big upset the Pacific Grove City Council election, Tina Rau pulled ahead of incumbent Councilmember Luke Coletti in the latest round of vote counting. On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, she was 41 votes behind…
David Schmalz here. One of the most formative books of my life—books that reshaped the way I see the world—was E.O. Wilson’s The Future of Life, published in 2002.
Sara Rubin here, trying to remember how I felt at this time eight years ago. Regular readers of the Weekly and Monterey County Now know that I think whatever positive promises Donald Trump might offer, they are more than overshadowed…
For the past two years, CSU Monterey Bay has had the National Steinbeck Center building in Salinas up for sale.
On Nov. 7, Monterey County Jail Deputy Gaspar Estevez was arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy and concealing a handmade weapon while on duty.
Two incumbent trustees from the sometimes volatile board for the Monterey Peninsula Community College District faced challengers in the Nov. 5 election. One, Chair Libby Downey, survived in her contest for Area 3. The other, Debbie Anthony, lost in Area…
The rumors are that Carmel-based actor Clint Eastwood might be done with the big screen.
While the presidency and the U.S. Senate flipped from blue to red, Monterey County's elected representatives to state and federal office remain solidly blue, with big victories on Nov. 5 for incumbents, all Democrats.
David Schmalz here, with some notable news to report. This past water year—a calendar built around the wet season, from Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024—just 8,972 acre-feet of water were pumped into Cal Am’s system to meet customer…
Three council seats were up for grabs in the City of Greenfield on Nov. 5, with districts 2 and 4 having district elections for the first time since the city began its transition away from at-large to district-based elections in…
Mike Wachs has won a seat on the P.G. Unified School District board for Area 2 in the Nov. 5 election over candidate Marie Hunter. The latest election results show Wachs earned 55.6 percent of the votes cast, compared to…
It’s a mixed bag of results for the trio of property tax measures on the Nov. 5 ballot benefiting schools and parks in North County—while one appears on its way for approval, another is going in the opposite direction, and…
