King City High School Agriculture Department earns state award
KING CITY ā King City High School Agriculture Department has been honored with the prestigious California Agricultural Teachersā Association (CATA) Outstanding 4-6 Person Department Award, a recognition aimed at promoting exemplary middle and secondary programs in agricultural education.
The award celebrates the departmentās commitment to...
Taking the vaccine into the fields to help vulnerable farmworkers
CALIFORNIA ā Before state officials announced that 40% of California's new vaccine doses would go to low-income communities, leaders were struggling to make good on promises to prioritize vulnerable Californians in the vaccine rollout.
As my colleague Miriam Jordan recently wrote, farmworkers were among those...
Guest Column | As Supplies Thin, Price of Recycled Water Could Go UpĀ
As we all manage the implementation of our groundwater management sustainability plans in the next 15 years, there will be some hard choices that communities will need to make. Most of these will include financing various water supply solutions, such as resource projects, land...
2016 crop statistics released for SLO County
The San Luis Obispo County Department of Agriculture/Weights and Measures has announced the release of the 2016 production statistics for the local agricultural industry. The total gross crop value for 2016 was $914,724,000.
UPDATE: Full SNAP/CalFresh benefits to be issued beginning Friday in Monterey County
UPDATE ā Nov. 7, 2025:
Full November SNAP/CalFresh benefits have begun posting to the EBT cards of Monterey County residents, according to the County of Monterey Department of Social Services on Friday.
āThe California Department of Social Services (CDSS) is telling us that California has initiated...
Salinas Valley Fair kick-off draws strong turnout
KING CITY ā Salinas Valley Fair hosted its annual Fair Kick-Off Dinner, Dance and Auction last Saturday at the fairgrounds in King City, where an estimated 450 guests attended.
The April 23 evening featured a dinner cooked by King City Young Farmers, a live auction...
California Food Policy Council gathers in Salinas to chart a resilient, equitable food future
SALINAS VALLEY ā More than 75 food leaders, farmers, advocates and policymakers from across California gathered in November for Growing the Future Together, the first in-person statewide convening of the California Food Policy Council (CAFPC) since the pandemic.
Hosted in Salinas ā the āSalad Bowl...
King City farm labor contractors receive suspended prison sentences for workersā compensation fraud
KING CITY ā Monterey County Judge Rafael Vasquez has sentenced King City residents and farm labor contractors Elias Perez Jr., 43, and Alejandra Perez, 40, to three years in prison for insurance fraud committed between 2013 and 2017.
Vasquez also suspended those prison sentences, placing...
King City weighs Meyers Farmworker Housing permit extension amid development push
KING CITY ā On King Cityās First Street, so-named because it was, stands a metal building with a clock. This is the Meyers Farmworker Housing Facility, a dorm-style seasonal home for more than 350 agricultural workers from Latin America.
Since David Gill, Steve Scaroni and...
Nicky Hahn, founder of Hahn Family Wines, dies at age 81
Nicolaus āNickyā Hahn, founder of Hahn Family Wines and pioneer of Californiaās Santa Lucia Highlands AVA, died last Friday at his home in Zurich, Switzerland. He was 81 years old.















