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SALINAS VALLEY — Meals on Wheels of the Salinas Valley has launched a new monthly social hour for active seniors in the community, the first of which was held last month in Soledad and Gonzales. The pilot program, called SOCOS Social (SOuth COunty Seniors Social),...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Public Works, Facilities and Parks Department will apply for millions of dollars in grants for park improvements at Lake San Antonio, San Lorenzo Park in King City and the county-owned property on East Laurel Drive in Salinas. Each grant application...

SOLEDAD — Soledad Police is looking for two suspects involved in a shooting that killed one person and injured another Sunday night. At about 8 p.m. on Oct. 10, officers from the Soledad Police Department responded to a shooting in the 100 block of Iris...

MURAL PROGRAM MONTEREY COUNTY — Arts Council for Monterey County’s Artist Spotlight returns with Kat Morgan on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 12 p.m. via Facebook Live. Morgan, a mural hunter, has located hundreds of local murals and is launching a new course on the murals...

If you’ve been following the news on the coronavirus in California this week, you may have noticed a stark contrast in how the pandemic is playing out across the state. While hospitals in Central and Northern California called in National Guard troops to help staff...

KING CITY — A Mee Memorial Healthcare System doctor will host two book readings for local youth this week, kicking off a series of celebrations prior to National Rural Health Day in November. Dr. Joshua Deutsch, a family physician at Mee Memorial in King City...

You may have noticed over the past few weeks a flurry of new laws entering the books in California. Measures have recently been approved to make universal mail-in voting permanent, remove the word “alien” from state laws and ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t...

SOLEDAD — Two inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad have been found guilty of attempting to murder another inmate. After a two-week jury trial, inmates Brian Pacheco, 40, and Jason Partee, 42, were convicted Sept. 23 for stabbing inmate Manual Gonzalez in September...

SALINAS VALLEY — Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) kicked off his statewide agricultural tour last month alongside local leaders and the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California. This first leg of the tour, beginning in Rivas’ Assembly District 30 on the Central Coast, included a celebration of...

SALINAS — Central Coast YMCA recently named Carmel Valley resident Julie Campisi as its regional sports coordinator for the Monterey and Salinas YMCAs.  Campisi, who will be coordinating all sports programs at the two locations, has an extensive background in teaching physical education, graduating in...