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Salinas Valley News Briefs | March 24, 2021

BACH CONCERTO SEASIDE — Sustainable energy pioneer, author, filmmaker and musician Bob Danziger has teamed up with CSUMB co-sponsors Music and Performing Arts Department and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, as well as others, on an online celebration of the 300th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s famous...

Vaccinated people can get Covid, but it’s most likely very rare

More than two months after he was fully vaccinated against COVID, a doctor in New York woke up with a headache and a dull, heavy feeling of fatigue. A fever and chills soon followed, and his senses of taste and smell began to fade. This,...

Greenfield man sentenced to 4 years in prison for stalking

GREENFIELD — Greenfield resident Efrain Eulogio Donato was sentenced to four years in state prison on March 19 after pleading no contest to a felony charge of stalking and a misdemeanor charge of violating a criminal protective order. Donato, 24, also admitted one prior ā€œstrikeā€...

Gonzales High School football coach calls it quits

GONZALES — Art Berlanga announced he would no longer be the football coach at Gonzales High School, effective immediately on March 11.Ā  Berlanga had time to tell the most-affected by his decision beforehand in a coaches meeting and a team meeting with athletes prior to...

Clash between union campaigns and private property at Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — Before dawn on an October morning in 2015, representatives of the United Farm Workers turned up at a strawberry plant nursery in Northern California to meet with workers and urge them to consider unionizing. They were able to enter the nursery’s property thanks...

Soledad Police arrest gang members on weapon charges

SOLEDAD — Soledad Police conducted a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation March 19 at about 10:30 p.m., during which the officers immediately recognized all three of the vehicle’s occupants as active Norteno gang members.  After a search of the vehicle, three fully loaded...

ImÔgenes de confusión y angustia: Familias migrantes deportadas por sorpresa

CIUDAD JUƁREZ, MĆ©xico — Llegaron en grupos de 30, con niƱos colgando de los brazos de los adultos. El 18 de marzo por la tarde, fueron escoltados por agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos por el Puente Internacional Paso del Norte hasta...

Children in elementary schools don’t need to be 6 feet apart, CDC says

In a major policy revision intended to encourage more schools to welcome students back full time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that elementary school students and some middle and high school students could be spaced 3 feet apart in...

Soledad community celebrates city’s 100th birthday

SOLEDAD — Residents across Soledad celebrated the city’s 100th birthday with multiple community events last week. The March 9 festivities began with a community cake contest, in which three bakers crafted cakes in the spirit of what Soledad meant to them, broadcasted over Facebook as...

City parks in Monterey County reopen to community

MONTEREY COUNTY — City parks throughout Monterey County have begun to reopen due to the lessening of health restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic. Gonzales Recreation Department announced the reopening of its parks by March 12. The announcement followed a March 1 reopening of the...

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Wrestling | Gonzales Spartan grapplers celebrate 2024-25 season

GONZALES — Gonzales High School’s wrestling team hosted a banquet and awards night Saturday at the school multipurpose room. Spartan wrestlers, along with their families...