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Western Flyer sets sail with weekend celebration, send-off festivities in Monterey

MONTEREY — Eighty-five years ago, the Western Flyer set sail for the Gulf of California with what local media described as “perhaps the strangest crew ever signed...

National Steinbeck Center celebrates John Steinbeck’s birthday with special event

SALINAS VALLEY — The National Steinbeck Center invites the community to celebrate the 123rd birthday of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck with a special...
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Salinas Valley News Briefs | June 2, 2023

BLOOD DRIVE GONZALES — Gonzales Fire Department in collaboration with Vitalant is hosting a community blood drive on Saturday, June 3, from 10 a.m. to...

Salinas Valley News Briefs | Sept. 28, 2022

LIBRARY CLOSURE KING CITY — King City Library will be closed this week for re-carpeting. Monterey County Free Libraries’ Bookmobile and Pop-Up Library will be...

Salinas Valley News Briefs | Sept. 23, 2022

STEINBECK FESTIVAL SALINAS — National Steinbeck Center will present the first-ever Steinbeck Street Fair and Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5...

Salinas Valley News Briefs | May 12, 2022

REGISTERING VOTERS KING CITY — Southern Monterey County Republican Women Federated will be registering voters of all parties during the Salinas Valley Fair, May 12-15,...

Yes, Steinbeck wrote a werewolf novel. Don’t expect to read it.

Nine years before John Steinbeck published his Pulitzer Prize-winning historical masterpiece, “The Grapes of Wrath,” he was working on a lighthearted detective novel featuring...
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