Mee Memorial earns Performance Leadership Award
KING CITY — Mee Memorial Healthcare System has been recognized with a 2023 Performance Leadership Award for excellence in quality.
Compiled by the Chartis Center for Rural Health, the Performance Leadership Awards honor top quartile performance (i.e., 75th percentile or above) among rural hospitals in...
Healthy Youth Field Day 2025 promotes good habits for Monterey County students
MONTEREY COUNTY — Aspire Health and Montage Health Foundation hosted its third annual Healthy Youth Field Day on May 19 in partnership with Monterey Bay Football Club at Cardinale Stadium in Seaside, bringing together 150 elementary students and their teachers for a morning of...
Greenfield Harvest Festival brings family fun this Sunday
GREENFIELD — Greenfield Harvest Festival will return this Sunday, Oct. 16, with many free activities for families in downtown Greenfield, all while celebrating the city’s 75th anniversary.
Beginning at 11 a.m., the festival kicks off with a community parade starting at Apple Street and El...
Sol Treasures’ Hermie Robles Creation Station honors late board director
KING CITY — Sol Treasures has begun a rollout of the Hermie Robles Creation Station, a room with technical equipment that can not only be a classroom, but also a creative center for artists, musicians and learners.
Aimed mainly for youth, the room’s laptops, equipment...
Westside Fuel Break progress continues in South Monterey County
SOUTH MONTEREY COUNTY — The Westside Fuel Break in South Monterey County is making significant progress, announced Cal Fire BEU on March 5.
In collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management, this critical fuels reduction project is strengthening wildfire defenses using a combination of strategies:...
Pop-up sites increase access to Covid-19 testing for South Monterey County residents
SALINAS VALLEY — Free pop-up Covid-19 testing sites have been emerging lately in South Monterey County as part of an effort to increase testing access after a new site was added to Castroville to the existing lineup of Salinas and Seaside.
When available, local residents...
2021 Year in Review | Looking back on South Monterey County’s top stories — Part II
KING CITY — The year 2021 felt like an extension of its tumultuous predecessor, as news of the region’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic carried on through the headlines each week.
However, there were other stories — some virus-related, some not — that also defined...
Man arrested for burglary at King City residence
KING CITY — King City Police Department has arrested a suspect in connection with a residential burglary earlier this week.
At about 1:50 a.m. on July 26, local officers responded to the report of a burglary in the 1200 block of Amherst Drive in King...
Monterey County loses 47,000 jobs during pandemic
MONTEREY COUNTY — Representatives from several area chambers of commerce spoke about how Monterey County businesses are dealing with the Covid-19 shutdowns during a Dec. 2 media briefing.
Monterey County has been tracking data about economic impacts, including the loss of more than 47,000 jobs...
Vaccination rates are lower in disadvantaged counties, CDC reports
Even though the pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on people of color and on low-income communities, Americans in wealthier counties have been getting vaccinated against the coronavirus at higher rates than those who live in more distressed, impoverished counties, federal health researchers reported...
