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King City Future Farmers of America recently finished their weekend Swiss sausage barbecue with an estimated total of 1,000 tickets sold, preparing them for their activities for the upcoming school year.

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.

A haunted graveyard, gory face painting and a camp fire set the stage for Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum’s seventh annual Ghost Stories bonfire at San Lorenzo County Park in King City.

Monterey County has been declared a “Dreamers County,” one of the first counties in the nation to enact a resolution supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which grants a temporary reprieve from deportation for so-called “Dreamers,” immigrants who were brought into the country as children by their parents.

A midday shooting last Friday resulted in a King City man being shot twice at a local mobile home park.

Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum (MCARLM) is featuring a new exhibit called “South County Roots” that opened this summer, created by the second cycle of high school interns, focusing on the lost towns of Monterey County.

King City in Bloom members Laurie Slaten and Phoebe Cheney recently received the special accolades given to the city last month at the 2017 America in Bloom National Awards Program.