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This year’s Salinas Valley Fair Heritage Animal, a 255-pound hog raised by Alexandria Burgess of Hilltown 4-H Club, was sold for $470 per pound, bringing in roughly $119,850 for the Salinas Valley Fair Heritage Foundation during last Saturday’s Junior Livestock Auction at the fairgrounds in King City.

A drive-by shooting injured a 23-year-old King City man Monday morning in the area of San Antonio Drive and Amherst Drive, briefly placing nearby King City High School on lockdown.

Community members gathered Friday afternoon to celebrate the completion of King City’s new entrance sign and landscaping project at the corner of Broadway Street and San Antonio Drive, one of the city’s main intersections.

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 Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture recently hosted its third annual Community Resource Fair at Salinas Valley Fairgrounds, offering a networking opportunity for South County businesses and residents to foster new relationships.

Monterey County Free Libraries recently completed its Summer Reading Program titled “Reading Takes You Everywhere,” and the King City branch celebrated last Friday by hosting a fashion show for the young participants to show off their origami hats made from recycled maps.

It was a record year for local oil company Aera Energy’s annual food drive last week, with the equivalent of 16,101 pounds of food donated to the Food Bank for Monterey County.

The fun and fabulous Trashion Show returns to King City for the third year. This year’s event promises to be even more exciting with a new theme, a new fashion presenter and over 22 unique one-of-a-kind dresses made from recycled and repurposed everyday trash.

Kevin Roberts, a fourth-grade teacher at Santa Lucia Elementary School, recently brought lunar samples taken from the Apollo moon missions to the King City school, providing students with a rare chance to view moon rocks and soils up close.