King City Chamber announces top business, community members for 2021
KING CITY — King City Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has announced the 2021 winners of the organization’s annual awards.
This year’s award winners are: Mee Memorial Healthcare System as Business of the Year; longtime residents John and Karen Jernigan as Citizens of the Year;...
Hartnell’s first week sees need for more classes
SALINAS VALLEY — Soledad Education Center Director Ana Gonzalez spoke about the first week of classes at the new facility during Soledad City Council’s Sept. 1 meeting.
Gonzalez said she was excited to see students at the center, which began offering some in-person classes on...
Sealcoating project on 3 Monterey County roads begins this week
MONTEREY COUNTY — A sealcoating project on Blanco, Reservation and River roads in Monterey County will begin Wednesday, May 29, announced the County of Monterey.
This work will take place on the following roads over the next two months:
Blanco Road, from Davis Road to Luther...
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 a werewolf.
The manuscript, “Murder at Full Moon,” was completed in 1930 but was never published. A single copy has been...
Salinas Valley News Briefs | Oct. 25, 2022
RIBBON CUTTING
SAN LUCAS — Monterey County Supervisor Chris Lopez and the community of San Lucas will have a ribbon cutting and resource fair on Wednesday, Oct. 26, to celebrate the completion of a Public Works improvement project that created sidewalks and paved streets in...
CHP helicopter rescues man stranded in river near King City
KING CITY — California Highway Patrol’s Coastal Division Air Operations assisted Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and Cal Fire BEU with the rescue of an individual trapped in the Salinas River near Jolon Road in King City on March 11.
The rising river washed a driver...
Monterey County agriculture sets off ripples through local economy, report shows
MONTEREY COUNTY — The role of agriculture and the resulting monetary ripples through the economy was the subject of a recent analysis conducted by the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office.
Titled “Economic Contributions of Monterey County Agriculture,” the report was published in June 2020 based...
Children in elementary schools don’t need to be 6 feet apart, CDC says
In a major policy revision intended to encourage more schools to welcome students back full time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that elementary school students and some middle and high school students could be spaced 3 feet apart in...
Salinas Valley News Briefs | May 20, 2021
VACCINE CLINIC
GREENFIELD — City of Greenfield and Greenfield Fire Department will host a vaccination clinic Saturday, May 22, at Greenfield Memorial Hall, 615 El Camino Real, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be an allocation of 500 doses of the Johnson &...
