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A Rare Chance to Attend a Corral Release Party!
THE STORY One of our Decanting Monterey wine partners recently invited me to attend a Corral Wine Co. release party. I was quite excited about the invitation, as we consider their wines as some o...
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GONZALES — City of Gonzales recently hosted a cultural celebration in honor of the 75th anniversary of Gonzales’ incorporation. Hundreds of families and community members turned out for the city’s diamond jubilee on Oct. 15, which included food, games and …
Pacific Grove Councilmember Luke Coletti has been sharply critical of City Manager Ben Harvey in public meetings since Coletti was elected in November 2020. In July 2021, Coletti was the lone vote against a new contract for Harvey, saying he…
After winning in 2018 and serving one term on the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System Board of Directors, Richard Turner was told he should have no problem winning a second time. No one runs against an incumbent in a race…
KING CITY — City of King has announced the appointment of Octavio Hurtado as the new director of public works. King City has been without a full-time public works director for many years due to financial constraints. Hurtado, who has …
Christopher Neely, watching, with great interest, what one former legislator called a “game of three-dimensional chess with the leadership of California hanging in the balance.”
For years, consumer advocates and some legislators have been battling to rein in escalating health care costs. Now the state has created a new agency to limit future growth in health care costs — and it will have the power …
Gonzales City Council appointed its director of community engagement and strategic partnership as interim city manager. Carmel Gil has been acting as interim city manager since June 20 after the departure of long-time city manager Rene Mendez, who became Watsonville's…
This is not your grandparents' dump. And the change in scope as well as name reflects that.
When the dust settled at the end of the annual race to meet the state budget deadline, legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom produced a $308 billion budget on June 30 for the next fiscal year. One of the big headlines…
July 1 is shaping up to be a big day for California. That's when the Golden State's sky-high gas prices are set to tick up even more due to a scheduled increase to the excise tax rate, which will tack …
Much has been made about the persistent disagreement between Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers over how to put money back in the pockets of Californians reeling from high gas prices and the rising cost of living, but what about …
Depending on whom you ask, the $300-billion-plus budget bill California lawmakers passed on Monday either was developed largely behind closed doors, ignores the state's biggest problems and fails to provide urgent relief amid skyrocketing inflation — or offered ample opportunity …
A compromise noise ordinance was initially approved by a 5-0 vote of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors today, Tuesday, May 24, setting the stage for either a new era of enforcement or, as some residents fear, more of the…
The suspense file allows lawmakers to shelve proposals that are too expensive. It also allows them to silently euthanize those that are controversial, opposed by powerful interest groups, or politically inconvenient.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Air Resources Board are boasting about California's shift to zero-emission vehicles but the reality of making it happen is daunting.
Costs across many industries have climbed over the past year, and construction is no different. That includes costs for public infrastructure, and on April 26, Salinas City Council voted 4-1 to increase development impact fees the city charges by 8…
Monterey County Chief Administrative Officer Charles McKee told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, April 26 that he is stepping down as the county's top bureaucrat, a post he has occupied for less than three years. He will officially step…
GONZALES — City of Gonzales has appointed Mark Hartunian as assistant city manager, officials recently announced. In collaboration with City Manager Rene Mendez, Hartunian will be responsible for the overall management analysis and administration coordination for the city. “As a …
Sand City has long had the most idiosyncratic identity of any place on the Monterey Peninsula, and on March 15, its City Council made a decision that sets it apart even more: The council hired a woman to be the…
Future generations might one day point to King City’s renaissance as a textbook example of good government and long-term crisis management. Once a thriving Salinas Valley city, the departure of one of its largest employers in the early 2000s triggered…
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