CSU Monterey Bay announced it is offering $4,000 "guaranteed back-up scholarships" to incoming students negatively impacted by delays in the Free Application for Student Aid, or FAFSA, process.
The Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) announced Maram Haddad as the 2024/2025 Monterey County Youth Poet Laureate. Haddad is a senior at Pacific Grove High School who wrote her first poem in the fifth grade after being inspired by…
Piece by piece, the County of Monterey is closing the yawning digital divide, recently connecting San Ardo and areas of Prunedale to the fiber network.
Sara Rubin here, thinking about how we get information. As a professional journalist, my team and I here at the Monterey County Weekly spend most of our time developing story ideas and working to understand the issues—that involves hours of…
Sloan Campi here, enjoying a cold beer in bike shorts with a bit of mud on my legs. Well-earned after cruising through Fort Ord trails on my gravel bike. A few people still ask me what this bike is—“is it…
The upcoming 87th Carmel Bach Festival is rolling out on June 13 and runs until June 27. Since its longtime executive director Steve Friedlander died in 2023, the festival board was forced to look someone to fill his big shoes.…
The Pacific Grove City Council will consider hiring the current assistant manager of Marina, Matthew Mogensen, as the town's permanent city manager at its council meeting on Wednesday, April 17. If the council votes to approve his hiring, Mogensen will…
David Schmalz here. I first wrote about the depletion of kelp forests locally in May 2018, which came to my attention while attending a Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council meeting a few weeks earlier.
Agata Popęda here with some morning thoughts, and in the process of planning the upcoming weekend (a King City food tour). We’ve reached that point of the year—full spring—when there’s simply too many Monterey County events to attend, places to…
One scenic stretch of highway through Big Sur, four current blockage points.
Celia Jiménez here, enjoying the beautiful landscapes in Monterey County from rocky coasts to mountains to ag fields. We are lucky to live in an area where we can produce food and enjoy nature.
The California Coastal Commission voted 9-1 on Thursday, April 11 in favor of a revised plan to build a luxury hotel at the American Tin Cannery site in Pacific Grove, two years after a P.G. City Council approval was appealed…
David Schmalz here. I’ve only seen a California condor sun its wings one time, and though I can’t place the year or month—about seven years ago, I’d guess—I remember precisely which spire it was standing on in Pinnacles National Park.
This year's Big Sur International Marathon will still see plenty of stunning scenery from the route along Highway 1, but will omit the southern portion and instead be an out-and-back route beginning and ending in Carmel.
A shorthanded County of Monterey Planning Commission was split on its decision over a proposed farmworker housing project in Pajaro on Wednesday, April 10. The 3-3 tie denies the proposal, which allows the developer to appeal the decision to the…
FREE SPEECHWhen someone makes a request for a record, a public agency is required to make a concerted search for it under the California Public Records Act. In an October 2023 decision in City of Gilroy v. Superior Court, the…
On Feb. 28, a Wednesday, the Seaside City Council held a special meeting in closed session to discuss three things: potential litigation (three matters) and performance evaluations of both City Manager Jaime Fontes and City Attorney Sheri Damon.
The City of Marina is known for its coastal access, diverse community and an array of international food options, but it’s missing a well-defined downtown area.
Signs announcing “housing is a human right” and “rent is too high,” along with demands for rent control and stories of evictions, have become commonplace at Salinas City Council meetings. Residents speak in English, Spanish and Mexican indigenous languages, sharing…
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