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GONZALES — Gonzales City Council has approved a ballot measure to raise the city’s sales tax by half a percent during a special meeting last month. After the 4-0 approval by Mayor Maria Orozco, Mayor Pro Tem Scott Funk and Council Members Lorraine Worthy and...

GONZALES — Asante Madrigal, a former Gonzales resident, was chosen by NBCUniversal as one of 27 social media influencers to cover the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Known on his TikTok, YouTube and Instagram accounts as King Asante, Madrigal headed to Paris on Aug....

SALINAS VALLEY — Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum (MCARLM) is tipping its hat to tradition with a brand-new pop-up exhibit celebrating the history and impact of the Miss Salinas Valley Fair competition. Running for a limited time only through the month of May,...

GALLERY CELEBRATION SALINAS — Hartnell College Gallery kicks off the 2025-26 academic year with “Roots to Horizons,” an exhibition celebrating 90 years of the college’s Art Department, the 50th anniversary of the Visual Arts Building and recent renovations. The exhibit showcases works by faculty and...

SALINAS VALLEY — Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC) is recruiting community members to participate in the Salinas Valley Safe Routes to School Steering Committees in each of the four South Monterey County cities of King City, Greenfield, Soledad and Gonzales. Safe Routes to School...

GREENFIELD — Hundreds of community members had a chance to walk and ride freely on El Camino Real last month as part of Ciclovía Greenfield. The June 26 event was meant to showcase bicycling by having community organizations, music and family activities held along Greenfield’s...

GONZALES — Two youth from Gonzales recently participated in a virtual workshop examining the relationship between civic engagement, population health, youth participation and health equity in the United States. Current Gonzales Youth Commissioner Aiden Cervantes and prior Youth Commissioner Isabel Mendoza attended the two-day workshop...

TRAFFIC REMINDER GONZALES — City of Gonzales is reminding residents to pay attention to the Public Works employees directing traffic each weekday morning on the Fifth Street Bridge. Lately, the employees have experienced motorists who are not respecting their traffic control and have created dangerous...

SALINAS — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has informed Salinas-based Taylor Farms that a laboratory test indicating one of the company’s iceberg lettuce products from central Mexico was contaminated with cyclospora was a false positive, according to the company and an updated FDA...

SALINAS — The pain and heartbreak of an epidemic that has claimed 89 lives in Monterey County last year were raw and personal for those who attended an Overdose Awareness Day event at Salinas Valley Health in Salinas. Glowing purple luminaries represented each one of...