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February 8, 2025

Tri-County Collaborative awarded Fentanyl Overdose Prevention Grant to tackle rising overdose rates

Drugs
CENTRAL COAST ā€” The Tri-County Collaborative (TCC) has been awarded a California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Fentanyl Overdose Prevention Grant. This multi-year grant totaling $1,280,985 over three years, provides critical funding to bolster efforts to combat the alarming increase in fentanyl-related overdoses gripping the...

Women Empowerment Resource Fair set for Saturday in Greenfield

Women
GREENFIELD ā€” Rotary District 5230 and the Limitless Mentorship and Scholarship Program are hosting the Women Empowerment Resource Fair scheduled for Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Memorial Hall in Greenfield. This free community event aims to provide a comprehensive platform...

Track and Field | South Monterey County teams complete season

Track and Field
SALINAS VALLEY ā€” The high school track-and-field season came to a close Saturday for local athletes at the Central Coast Section semifinals at Gilroy High School. Athletes competed in six track events and four field events, with all four South Monterey County schools competing. Mariana Alcaraz...

Monterey County Community Action Partnership celebrates 60 years of service

Monterey County Community Action Partnership
MONTEREY COUNTY ā€” Monterey County Community Action Partnership is celebrating a milestone with its partner organizations across the county this month: 60 years of improving communities, fighting the impacts of poverty, inspiring a spirit of hope and creating opportunities for residents to be a...

Gonzales ā€˜Safe Streetsā€™ voting ends soon

Gonzales Safe Routes
GONZALES ā€” Gonzales residents can help decide how to spend a budget of $250,000 in the community to make it safer for youth and families to get to and from schools. The Gonzales Safe Routes to School Steering committee was formed in September 2023 to...

Monterey County Health Department offers safety tips for bicyclists, drivers

Bicycles safety
MONTEREY COUNTY ā€” May is National Bicycle Safety Month, and Monterey County Health Department is encouraging everyone to get active and safely take bike rides, while at the same time reminding drivers to be on the lookout for more people biking and walking. ā€œEveryone deserves...

Three suspects arrested for King City mass shooting, double homicide near Soledad

Monterey County Sheriffā€™s Office press conference King City
SALINAS VALLEY ā€” Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the King City mass shooting that killed four residents on March 3 and the double homicide near Soledad that resulted in the deaths of two cousins on Feb. 4, announced local law enforcement...

Soledad winery hiking series returns Sunday

Winery vineyard hiking
SOLEDAD ā€” CRU Winery is partnering with Valley Farm Management and the Blue Zones Project Monterey County to bring back their spring and summer hiking series. Hosted monthly, participants will hike through the stunning and sustainably farmed Paraiso Vineyard before ending with a wine tasting...

Law enforcement agencies to announce breakthrough in South Monterey County double homicide, King City mass shooting and Salinas armed robbery cases

SALINAS VALLEY ā€” Monterey County Sheriffā€™s Office, King City Police Department and Salinas Police Department have scheduled a joint press conference Friday morning to make a major announcement involving three ongoing investigations. Officials are planning to unveil ā€œsignificant developmentsā€ related to the double homicide that...

Inspiring women to soar: Salinas entrepreneur shows others that success is attainable with vision and motivation

SALINAS ā€” In 1994, Ana Jimenez made her journey from her hometown Sinaloa, Mexico, to Salinas. She was a newlywed to Gerardo Jimenez, and together, they vowed to work hard and make the best of it living in a foreign country. ā€œI told myself, ā€˜I...

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Salinas Valley Police Reports | Published Feb. 5, 2025

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments. KING CITY Jan. 164:15 p.m. Missing person report on Jayne St.5:27 p.m. Petty theft on Sycamore St.10:39...