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CENTRAL COAST — California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved grant funding of up to $5.65 million to Cruzio Media, Inc., member of Monterey Bay Economic Partnership and Central Coast Broadband Consortium. The funding will expand middle-mile broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved rural, agricultural...

MOVIE NIGHT KING CITY — Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum will host an Outdoor Movie Night on Saturday, July 1, at 8:30 p.m. The movie “Grease” will be shown outside the main Museum barn at San Lorenzo Park in King City. Concessions and...

SALINAS VALLEY — Hundreds of third-graders recently roamed the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds in King City to learn about agriculture during the annual South County Farm Day. Students from Gonzales, Soledad, Greenfield and King City schools attended the free educational enrichment program on Jan. 26,...

GREENFIELD — Greenfield High School has canceled classes Friday after additional threats of violence were made overnight, school officials announced. “There were additional threats made last night against Greenfield High School,” said Jordan Mulder, superintendent of South Monterey County Joint Union High School District, in...

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...

SALINAS VALLEY — Sen. Anna Caballero stopped by Greenfield and Soledad last Monday to present checks for $1 million and $400,000 in state funding, respectively, to the City of Greenfield for radio transmission and reception upgrades and to the Soledad-Mission Recreation District for improvements...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Elections Office and Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL) are joining efforts to offer a new program, Books and Ballots: Candidate Filing. The program offers flex candidate filing locations at various libraries during specified times in the candidate filing period. Candidates...

BEAUTIFICATION BBQ KING CITY — The public is invited to the annual Beautification Week Hamburger BBQ at San Lorenzo Park in King City on Wednesday, June 12, hosted by the King City Chamber of Commerce and King City Rotary Club. The event is free thanks...

GREENFIELD — Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced Jan. 15 that Jubentino Matias Aguilar, 46, of Greenfield, was sentenced to 40 years in state prison by Judge Pamela Butler. On April 11, 2023, the victims’ mother brought them to the Greenfield Police Department after her...

You may have noticed over the past few weeks a flurry of new laws entering the books in California. Measures have recently been approved to make universal mail-in voting permanent, remove the word “alien” from state laws and ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t...