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The City of Gonzales, in collaboration with Gonzales Customs and Street Life Car Club, hosted its third annual Car Show on Saturday in downtown Gonzales.

In a heartfelt tribute, the City of Gonzales honored 28 local veterans and active-duty service members during a special Hometown Heroes ceremony last week at Central Park.

Gonzales Fire Department has received a grant totaling $42,933 from the California Office of Traffic Safety to purchase new extrication equipment.

GONZALES — City of Gonzales celebrated the “topping out” of the Dennis and Janice Caprara Community Center Complex with a ceremony Friday, marking the milestone of lifting the final structural beam into place.

GONZALES — City of Gonzales has placed Measure S on the Nov. 5 Presidential General Election ballot.

City of Gonzales was honored by the Monterey County Business Council at the 28th Annual Gala and Community Builder Awards on April 26 at The Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach.

A groundbreaking was held Saturday for Phase 1 of the Dennis and Janice Caprara Community Center Complex in Gonzales.

City of Gonzales has announced that on Feb. 28 the design/build team of Otto Construction/WRNS Studio submitted 100% construction documents for the Dennis and Janice Caprara Community Center Complex to the city for building code review by its building official.

A community center can bring people of different ages together and give them a sense of belonging. It’s also a venue for people to learn new skills.

Eighteen youths have been selected to serve on the 2023-24 Gonzales Youth Council, a program sponsored by the city with support from the Gonzales Unified School District.

The entire Gonzales Police Department completed the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement program on Nov. 30.

For a Monterey County Weekly cover story, Celia Jiménez spoke with several teenagers about the work they’ve done in their communities.

Earlier this month, the cities of Gonzales, Soledad, Greenfield and King City rejected three proposals they received for waste hauling services.

As Salinas Valley cities like Soledad and Gonzales look to expand their footprints by annexing surrounding farmland and converting it into housing and other uses, there’s an ongoing debate.

Local Agency Formation Commission of Monterey County has approved the annexation of about 49 acres that allows for a planned 313,800-square-foot agricultural cooler processing facility to move forward.

The Gonzales City Council awarded the design-build contract for the Dennis and Janice Caprara Community Center, to be built at Gabilan Court and Fifth Street.

GONZALES — Gonzales City Council has appointed Carmen Gil to the position of city manager. Gil has been with the city as Director of Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships since 2020 and served as interim city manager from June 2022 to January 2023. In her 20-plus years of experience working on projects throughout Monterey County, [...]

City expenditures are split among essential needs and quality-of-life benefits in a budgeting process. And with the fiscal year beginning July 1, government entities, including Monterey County’s 12 cities, are in various stages of tweaking and finalizing their annual budgets.

Gonzales has been named one of 10 All-America City award winners, presented by the National Civic League in recognition of the city’s work to improve the health and well-being of young people.

On June 5, Gonzales City Council appointed Carmel Gil as city manager.