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GONZALES — City leaders hosted a Zoom town hall meeting May 16 to discuss the planned Gonzales Community Center to be built on Fifth Street near the high school. The project has been in the works for years, but city leaders were interested in community...

SALINAS VALLEY — Hartnell College and its partner, the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California, are reaching out to veterans and family members with an immediate opportunity for free courses in agricultural technology and paid on-the-job training at some of the largest Salinas Valley ag...

SALINAS — From 2016 to 2019, Portland’s Red Door Project toured a show called “Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments,” featuring monologues about the experiences of African Americans with the criminal justice system.  The stories performed were autobiographical accounts of actual experiences with racial profiling....

CENTRAL COAST — Applications will close Nov. 30 for the 2023 McDonald’s Golden Grants program benefitting education and nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area, Eureka, Salinas-Monterey and the Central Coast that better the lives of children ages 5 through 18 sharing $40,000 throughout...

GREENFIELD — A grinding and paving project will result in on- and off-ramp closures on Highway 101 in the Greenfield area beginning this week. The work, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day, started Tuesday with the closure of the northbound 101 Walnut off-ramp. Closures...

SALINAS VALLEY — Salinas Valley high school seniors who plan to attend Hartnell College and have completed the Steps to Success are encouraged to sign up by April 17 to attend Panther Prep Days on April 27-29 and receive priority registration. During Panther Prep Day...

SOLEDAD — Nadia Manzano from Soledad High School is among Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s 2023 nominations of local high school students to U.S. military academies. Manzano and the six other nominated students will attend service academies in the fall as they take their first steps toward...

SALINAS VALLEY — Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the community’s help to determine if there are additional victims of a rape suspect. On Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Office released a photograph of Soledad resident Uri Deleon Carcamo, 21, who was arrested Jan. 23 in King...

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Rotary Club has announced the completion of its latest community service project, which involved the restoration of the “You’re In Greenfield” sign at Jim Maggini Memorial Park, located just north of Greenfield Memorial Hall at 615 El Camino Real. The project was...