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SALINAS — From 2016 to 2019, Portland’s Red Door Project toured a show called “Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments,” featuring monologues about the experiences of African Americans with the criminal justice system.  The stories performed were autobiographical accounts of actual experiences with racial profiling....

SALINAS VALLEY — Fort Hunter Liggett recently conducted the June Quarterly Community Relations Executive Board (CREB) meeting at City Hall in King City. The June 21 meeting began with opening remarks from HHC Commander, Lt. Col. Christopher Layton, greeting distinguished guests and audience members and...

SALINAS — The International Council of Airshows (ICAS) has announced this year’s Hall of Fame inductees, and Salinas businessman and one of the founders of the California International Airshow Salinas — Jim Gattis — will be inducted into the Airshow Hall of Fame. Gattis will be joining some...

GONZALES — Gonzales Unified School District has been recognized nationally for its innovative approach to school nutrition, receiving three Healthy Meals Incentives Recognition Awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service, in partnership with Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK). The district...

GONZALES — Sixteen players and two coaches from the 1974 Gonzales High School football team entered the Salinas Valley Sports Hall of Fame (SVSHOF) on Saturday at the Storm House in Salinas. The Gonzales football team became the first high school football team from the...

SALINAS — Track and field athletes from South Monterey County traveled to Salinas on Saturday and many earned medals at the 32nd Annual Bill Kearney Invitational Track and Field Meet held at Salinas High School. Gonzales High had three athletes medal in the varsity boys...

GREENFIELD — A Greenfield film student was one of two top winners and one honorary mention winner in the Monterey County Film Commission’s 2022 Director Emeritus Richard Tyler Film Student Scholarship Award program. David Orta, a Greenfield resident and film student at Hartnell Community College,...

GREENFIELD — Five new police officers and one community service officer, all bilingual speakers, have joined the Greenfield Police Department. Officers Damian Ayala, Daniel Lopez and Michael Ramirez are recent graduates from the police academy, and Officers Antonio Jardines and Federico Tinoco are laterals from...

CALIFORNIA — Enrollment in early childhood development programs can mitigate some of the consequences of homelessness among infants and toddlers, but only 1 out of 9 of these children are enrolled in such programs, according to a recent national report. In California, 1 out...

SOLEDAD — Officers from the Soledad Police Department were responding to a call for service on April 15 when they were notified of a potential threat to the community — a possible bomb in the bed of a nearby truck. They responded and located what...