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GONZALES — Gonzales High School senior Anixia Davila was named the champion of the 2024 Monterey County Poetry Out Loud (POL) competition. Students from seven local high schools competed in this year’s event, which took place Feb. 3 at the CSUMB Alumni and Visitor’s Center...

SALINAS VALLEY — California Rangeland Trust has announced the conservation of the 9,400-acre Silacci Ranch in San Benito and Monterey counties. The project was completed by the Rangeland Trust with funding from the California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB), the California Strategic Growth Council’s Sustainable Agricultural...

GONZALES — Last Thursday night at Pacific Grove, the host Breakers outscored Gonzales 28-7 in the first half and never looked back in the 48-14 home win. The Breakers improved to 2-1 in pre-season and the Spartans are now 1-2. “We couldn’t seem to get much...

SALINAS VALLEY — More than 400 young athletes from across Monterey County took to the fields of the Salinas Regional Soccer Complex on July 12-13, participating in the Chevron Soccer Academy — an event that delivered not just elite soccer training, but inspiration, education...

SALINAS VALLEY — Monterey County Office of Education (MCOE) bus driver Susana Rodriguez and her passenger/husband Isaac Godinez, who is also a bus driver for MCOE, were en route from Salinas to Soledad on a routine mail run May 22 when they came across...

SOLEDAD — Salinas Valley State Prison inmates Alberto Cortez and Jaime Romero have each been convicted by a jury of murder, announced the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office on June 3. Cortez was convicted of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of multiple murder, based...

CENTRAL COAST — Pacific Coast Athletic League divisional trials and finals will take place next week for high school track and field teams from Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties. Gonzales, Greenfield and King City have completed the regular season in the Santa Lucia...

GONZALES — Gonzales High School Class of 2023 graduate Andrew Zarate will be wrestling for New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, N.M. Zarate competed for Lassen College the past two wrestling seasons and placed fourth at 184 pounds at the California Junior College State...

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Recreation Department’s 2025 Easter Event was a resounding success last week, bringing together community members for a late afternoon filled with joy, laughter and entertainment. Held at Patriot Park, attendees participated in an array of fun activities, thrilling egg hunts and spectacular...

GONZALES — Gonzales High’s boys’ soccer team hosted the Show and Shine Car Show on Saturday at the school stadium parking lot. Cars, trucks and bikes of all makes and models were welcomed to the inaugural event that was a fundraiser for the soccer program. The...