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JOB FAIRS MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Works will host a pair of Multiple Employer Job Fairs this month with various employers from the region. The events are: Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 1 to 4 p.m., and Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 1 to 4 p.m....

HOLIDAY CONCERTS MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Pops! Brass ensemble will present two free holiday concerts in December, featuring traditional and contemporary festive music. The concerts are scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Hartnell College in Salinas, located at 411 Central Ave.,...

KING CITY — A joint project with the King City High School Agriculture Department and the community has produced colorful wrought-iron butterflies to decorate the pollinator plantings at the new mural at Mee Memorial Healthcare System. Located at 809 Broadway St., behind 7-11, the planter underneath...

LIBRARY SURVEY MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Free Libraries is conducting a survey through July to evaluate the library open hours for each community that it serves. The anonymous feedback will help MCFL plan for the future. Take the survey at surveymonkey.com/r/MCFLHoursInput, or find the...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Residents in Monterey County can now look forward to fewer restrictions as the region moves from the most severe risk, Purple Tier, and into the moderate risk, Red Tier, of California’s Covid-19 reopening plan. The announcement was made Tuesday after the county...

KING CITY — Loaves and Fishes recently donated $10,000 to the Food Bank for Monterey County, passing along donations made to them for local assistance efforts. “We figured $10,000 was a good donation that will go quite a ways with helping with the food,” said...

KING CITY — King City Police Department is asking for the public’s help with information about last Sunday’s shooting that killed a 22-year-old man from King City. According to the department, gunshots were reported on Jan. 9 at about 4:50 p.m. in the 300 block...

KING CITY — California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced more than $1.3 billion in funding has been awarded to public transportation projects statewide through the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP). Among the 27 approved projects, King City will receive $25 million to advance...

KING CITY — Officials at Santa Lucia Elementary School in King City opened a time capsule from 1970 on April 29, after the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the originally planned 2020 opening.  The school’s 570 current students and their teachers were in attendance for the ceremony,...

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 aboard a local workboat.” Among them were renowned author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts, embarking on the journey...