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Three young women will compete for the Miss Salinas Valley Fair crown beginning Friday, March 16, and concluding Saturday, March 17, in King City.

The 74th annual Salinas Valley Fair was packed with entertainment, livestock, youth exhibits and displays of the Salinas Valley’s rich agricultural heritage and abundance.

Members of the community were invited to an open house last week at the King City Police Department to get an up-close look at the City of King’s new citywide security camera system and celebrate the completion of the nearly half-million dollar project’s first phase.

King City Council has approved a revised plan to improve local sidewalks that have either deteriorated over the years or are incomplete segments due to financial constraints, with the intent of obtaining a federal grant for more than $3 million to help fix accessibility throughout the city.

Santa Lucia Elementary School Principal Brinet Greenlee and fellow staff members recently kissed a pig on stage during an assembly with the student body as part of a fundraiser for the school’s library.

Salinas Valley Fair welcomed autumn last week with its second annual Fall Carnival at the fairgrounds in King City.

California Rodeo Salinas will honor the late Allan Wallace, who was ranch manager at Topo Ranch in King City for 30 years, by inducting him and four others this Thursday into the organization’s Hall of Fame Class of 2018.

Salinas Valley businessman Raymond Costa, who owns and operates 10 local McDonald’s franchises, helped to make the college aspirations of his employees possible last Wednesday.

As King City prepares for the arrival of the 2018 Amgen Tour of California next Tuesday, local resident and cancer survivor Yolanda Maldonado has been selected to help kick off day three of the race considered to be America’s premier professional cycling event.