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12/02/2023

David Schmalz here. I’m not someone who builds things, fixes things, or, for that matter, takes things apart in order to put them back together again. When I was about 10, a family friend gave me a set of tools…

12/01/2023

Agata Popęda here, considering the holiday season officially open. The Holiday Parade of Lights took place last night in Pacific Grove; and tonight the Monterey Museum of Art opens the season with an installation titled Illuminado. In other words—to steal…

12/01/2023

Play can be a way for kids to learn new concepts, including math, vocabulary words and, according to transportation officials, the rules of the road.

11/30/2023

Celia Jiménez here, thinking about holiday lights and Christmas trees. While it is still November, at least for today, December holiday celebrations have already started—like last Sunday's Holiday Parade of Lights in Salinas.

11/30/2023

Gunfire was exchanged over the course of three-and-a-half seconds early in the morning on Tuesday, Nov. 21 inside El Torero Bar in Pajaro. While brief, it was a consequential and fatal series of shots—two people were killed, including an employee…

11/29/2023

Holding signs with messages like “I can’t have a family and be an MPUSD teacher” and “I love my job but I can’t afford my rent,” teachers in Monterey Peninsula Unified School District showed up to an Oct. 24 board…

11/29/2023

On Nov. 7, 87 percent of the 71 members of the Monterey Firefighters Association Local 3707 took a vote of “no confidence” in Monterey Fire Chief Gaudenz Panholzer, the union announced on Tuesday, Nov. 28. The public announcement was sudden…

11/29/2023

By day, the derelict San Xavier Fish Reduction plant at 484 Cannery Row looks exactly like what it is: ruins of a bygone era when sardine fishing was king on the Monterey Peninsula.

11/29/2023

Parsonage Winery had a good year in 2019. Owner Bill Parsons says the 2023 vintage will be even better. The team at J.Lohr draws parallels to the stellar 1989 vintage. Meanwhile Russell Joyce, who planted a vineyard for what would…

11/29/2023

FREE SPEECHMental health challenges for journalists have been well documented in recent years, but the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors and the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at Kansas State University set out to look at a…