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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...

SOLEDAD — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the Oct. 14 death of an incarcerated person at Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) in Soledad as a homicide. At about 5:15 p.m., staff observed Orlando Ochoa assaulting Israel Mendoza and responded by utilizing chemical...

SOLEDAD — Monterey County Sheriff’s Office Agricultural Crimes Unit has arrested a Soledad man in connection with a series of diesel fuel thefts across Monterey County. Detectives with the Agricultural Crimes Unit investigated the ongoing thefts by installing surveillance cameras at known fuel theft locations,...

CLEAN SLATE DAY MONTEREY COUNTY — The County of Monterey Public Defender’s Office has announced the annual “Clean Slate Day” on Friday, June 28, at three different locations: the Courtyard of the County Government Center in Salinas from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.; the Greenfield...

GRAND OPENING SOLEDAD — A grand-opening celebration of Hartnell College’s new Soledad Education Center is planned for Saturday, Oct. 23, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will feature an official ribbon-cutting, building tours, family festival and free hot dog-hamburger picnic. The public is...

SALINAS — The Salinas Juneteenth Celebration Association and Hartnell College will host the Third Annual Salinas Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 17, with the theme “Unearthing the Past, Cultivating the Future.”  This free event is open to the public and includes live music, food, craft...

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,...

SOLEDAD — City of Soledad has received a $2 million grant from the state of California for the purchase of a new fire truck that can reach multi-story buildings. Sen. Anna Caballero, who helped to secure the funding in this year’s state budget, presented the...

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 — Four suspects from Greenfield were arrested Wednesday night after carjacking a man at gunpoint and taking off in his vehicle. Just after 8 p.m. on Nov. 16, a man called 911 to report that he had been carjacked. According to the Greenfield Police...