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GREENFIELD — Greenfield City Council approved a $4,000 donation for Greenfield High School’s Sober Grad Night during its latest meeting April 27. Of concern was the pandemic-caused shortfall in fundraising so far for an altered event. During normal years, Sober Grad Night would last all night...

SOLEDAD — The Facebook and Zoom broadcast of Soledad City Council’s April 21 meeting had to be shut down twice and items from the meeting delayed after malicious characters took over the stream with a video feed of explicit pornography. The first interruption took place...

FLEA MARKET CANCELED KING CITY — Oscar Avalos from King City Rotary announced May 2 that the Rotary Flea Market planned for May 23 had to be canceled due to Covid-19 restrictions. While the weekly flea market held at the same site at Salinas Valley...

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Fire Department hosted a live fire training on April 24, the last in a series of trainings held on a property located on the northern end of town. Firefighters from Greenfield, Salinas, King City, Monterey, Gonzales and Pine Canyon collaborated on exercises...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County could move into the yellow tier of the state's pandemic reopening system as soon as next week, the county's top health official said Tuesday. Monterey County's rate of new cases per day per 100,000 residents, adjusted for the county's testing...

SALINAS VALLEY — Salinas Valley Fair activities will begin this week with the virtual junior livestock auction set for Saturday, May 8. Like last year, Covid-19 pandemic health guidelines have caused an online format and an earlier scheduling than the traditional mid-May fair dates. Youth from...

SOLEDAD — Soledad Community Health Care District Foundation will host a drawing May 7 for an Amish quilt as part of its annual Mother’s Day fundraiser. Proceeds from tickets purchased for the drawing of the queen-sized quilt will go toward the Soledad Women’s Health Center,...

GREENFIELD — Volunteers with South County Animal Rescue (SCAR) and Soledad author Lucy Mason Jensen attended Let’s Taco ’Bout Dogs, hosted by Scheid Vineyards in Greenfield last Saturday. The April 24 event was an opportunity to learn more about SCAR, to try food from Tacos...

A little more than a week ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that not only would California effectively ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by 2024, but the state also would work to phase out oil extraction entirely by 2045. “As we move to swiftly decarbonize our...