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KING CITY — King City Rotary Club is accepting applications for its 2026-27 community service grants and event sponsorships, with $9,500 available this year on a first-come, first-served basis. Typical grants range from $500 to $1,000. Requests will be reviewed several times throughout the Rotary...

MONTEREY COUNTY — The Alzheimer’s Association is expanding its outreach in South Monterey County with a focus on helping residents protect their cognitive health and supporting families caring for loved ones with dementia. This fall, the Association in partnership with the Health Projects Center/Del Mar...

JOLON — Thousands of soldiers descend each summer to Fort Hunter Liggett from all around the nation to validate their readiness across complex command structures, pitting their skills directly against opposing forces (OPFOR). The sleepy rural road leading to the installation is now like Highway...

KING CITY — Salinas Valley Fairgrounds was filled with families, first responders and community organizations last Tuesday evening as the King City Police Department hosted National Night Out 2026, an evening of food, activities and community connection. The event, held from 4 to 7:30 p.m....

KING CITY — King City voters will decide in November whether to increase and extend the city’s existing sales tax after the King City Council unanimously approved placing the measure on the General Election ballot during its July 28 meeting. The proposed measure would increase...

BRADLEY — The body of a missing person was recovered Monday from Lake San Antonio after an underwater search by Monterey County sheriff’s deputies and park rangers. At about 3:10 p.m. on Sunday, park rangers received a report of an adult who had gone missing...

SAN ARDO — Caltrans will begin vegetation control work Monday along an 8-mile stretch of Highway 101 in southern Monterey County, with intermittent lane and shoulder closures expected over the next two weeks. Crews will remove vegetation and brush from the shoulders of northbound and...

MONTEREY COUNTY — As thousands of Monterey County students prepare to return to school this fall, more than 13,500 are doing so without stable housing. To help meet that need, United Way Monterey County’s Stuff the Bus program will provide 6,565 backpacks filled with school...

KING CITY — Communities across South Monterey County will join together Saturday, Aug. 8, for the inaugural Paint the Valley Purple campaign, a valley-wide awareness event leading up to the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of the Salinas Valley next month. The event will...

KING CITY — King City native Seth E. Anderson has been promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Marine Corps and has assumed duties as the Director of Intelligence, Headquarters Marine Corps, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Anderson was promoted during...