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March 29, 2024

Soledad farmers market returns with new season after shutdown

SOLEDAD ā€” Soledad Historical Societyā€™s farmers market returned with a new season that began on April 1. Signs posted at the entryway of the closed lanes at 135 Soledad St. asked guests to observe Covid-19 health guidelines, such as wearing masks and keeping spaced apart. The...

Hartnell hosts conference on agriculture industryā€™s changing workforce needs

SALINAS VALLEY ā€” Hartnell College hosted a special version of the annual Ag Tech Summit ā€” a half-day, in-person program called AgTechX Ed ā€” last month on the Main Campus in Salinas. The Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology has joined with the California...

District 4 Dairy Princess and alternates crowned

CENTRAL COAST ā€” Ellie Dyt knows a lot more about the California dairy industry than most 17-year-old high schoolers. Dyt was raised on a dairy farm her whole life in the small town of Crows Landing, home to thousands of dairy cows, gaining first-hand experience...

Gonzales FFA student earns champion honors

GONZALES ā€” Luis Gonzalez won multiple banners in this yearā€™s Monterey County Fair, including Reserve Supreme Champion Market Goat for his goat named Roberto. Gonzalez, an incoming freshman member of the Gonzales High School Future Farmers of America (FFA), raised two animals for the fair,...

Public input sought on Salinas Valley Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plans

SALINAS VALLEY ā€” Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency (SVBGSA) Board of Directors on Aug. 12 approved Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) drafts to be released for public comment for the following subbasins: Eastside, Forebay, Langley and Upper Valley.  This comes after the 180/400 Foot Aquifer...

Monterey Countyā€™s Covid-19 infection rates highest in agriculture

SALINAS VALLEY ā€” Monterey County Health Department reports that 475 agriculture workers, or 36.79 percent of the countyā€™s total confirmed cases, have been infected with Covid-19 as of June 22. A large gap separates that figure and the 261 ā€œunknown or under investigationā€ category, and...

Who will fulfill the vision of Cesar Chavez?

More than three decades ago, Cesar Chavez, founder of the first successful union for farmworkers, predicted a future in which the cities of California would be run by people who looked like him. ā€œHistory and inevitability are on our side,ā€ he said in one of his best-known...

Thousands of farmworkers are prioritized for the coronavirus vaccine

COACHELLA, Calif. ā€” The sun-baked desert valley tucked behind the San Jacinto Mountains is best known for an annual music festival that draws 100,000 fans a day and a series of lush, oasis resort towns where well-heeled snowbirds go to golf, sunbathe and party....

PapƩ opens new service center in Gonzales

GONZALES ā€” PapĆ© Material Handling opened its new Gonzales location with a celebration earlier this month, allowing the public to tour the facility, get acquainted with the team and see an electric truck. An estimated 100 community members showed up to the Aug. 4 grand...

Thousands of respirator masks distributed to Salinas Valley agricultural workers

SALINAS VALLEY ā€” Numerous area leaders recently came together to distribute thousands of N95 respirators to protect agricultural workers, as ongoing air quality problems due to smoke from nearby wildfires caused essential workers in the outdoors to be in danger. Last week the Air Quality...

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Open Studios Art Tours

New look and name for 2024 Artists Studio Tour

MONTEREY COUNTY ā€” Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) will be continuing the Artist Studio Tourā€™s legacy, previously run by Arts Habitat. To ensure the...