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GONZALES — Members of the Gonzales City Council and Planning Commission hosted a joint meeting last month for a workshop review of the Puente del Monte housing development plans. The concept project includes approximately 2,623 dwelling units divided into two neighborhoods, West and East. City leaders...

SOLEDAD — Soledad Unified School District Superintendent Randy Bangs delivered a report on the independent study program at the Aug. 11 school board meeting. At the start of the current school year, Bangs noted there is a waiting list of students trying to get in...

MONTEREY COUNTY — State and county leaders recently took a tour of Nacimiento and San Antonio dams to get a first-hand look of the impacts of drought and facility conditions.  Both reservoirs have reached near record lows, with Nacimiento at 14% capacity and San Antonio...

GONZALES — Gonzales High School Athletic Director Margie Daniels was honored with a plaque for Excellence in Coaching last Wednesday night at the annual coaches meeting that took place in the school cafeteria. While Daniels had organized the event to prepare her fellow coaches for...

SALINAS VALLEY — California Department of Transportation has awarded a Sustainable Communities Transportation Planning Grant in the amount of $664,127 to the Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC) and its partners, Monterey County Health Department and Ecology Action, for the Salinas Valley Safe Routes...

SCHOOL SAFETY MONTEREY COUNTY — A countywide school safety striping project began Aug. 9 and is expected to be completed Aug. 20. Roadwork improvements include installation of new crosswalk and school pavement markings at 36 locations in Carmel Valley, South County, North County and rural...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Mee Memorial Hospital in King City will abide by recent state mandates that require hospital visitors to present proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test taken within the past 72 hours. Dr. Joshua Deutsch, a physician from Mee Memorial, confirmed...

SOLEDAD — SPCA Monterey County is currently caring for nine pet fantail pigeons who were found abandoned on the side of Highway 146 in Soledad last week.  SPCA humane officers are seeking information about the person who abandoned the birds.  In the evening on Aug. 10,...

Alvaro Mercado of Soledad was named to the spring 2021 Dean’s List at University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas. This recognition requires students to end the semester with a 3.5 GPA or better. Shelby Gourley of Gonzales was named to the 2021 spring semester...

GREENFIELD — Community members who registered for a Covid-19 vaccine at McDonald’s in Greenfield recently were able to get a free Big Mac. The two-day event was held Aug. 6 and 7 in partnership between McDonald’s and Virus Integrated Distribution of Aid (VIDA) Monterey County,...