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For the first time, Salinas Valley Fair auctioned off a market goat — raised by Ivan Trujillo of Greenfield High School FFA — as the Heritage Foundation Scholarship animal for nearly $1,385 per pound, resulting in a total of $108,000 raised.

SOLEDAD — Soledad Police Department K-9s Bo and Koda recently took part in a partnership at Fresno Yosemite International Airport to check luggage and cargo for compliance. Together with K-9s from Coalinga Police Department and California State Hospital Police, the police dogs worked with the...

GREENFIELD — Greenfield City Council has approved an application for a state grant of $65,000 during a special meeting June 29. The Local Early Action Planning grant is not a competitive process, and City Manager Paul Wood said indications are that any city that applied...

GONZALES — City of Gonzales, in partnership with the Transportation Agency of Monterey County (TAMC) and Ecology Action, will be implementing a bike lane pilot project from April 7 through June 30, as part of the Salinas Valley Safe Routes to School Plan. The pilot...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Henry Corda and Paul Guzman, both from Gonzales, were honored last Friday among the top 13 veterans during the Monterey County 2020 Veteran of the Year awards ceremony. The Nov. 6 event took place at the county supervisors’ meeting chambers in Salinas,...

GREENFIELD — An officer from the Greenfield Police Department was assaulted Sunday night while attempting to arrest a man who had a gun. At about 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 27, Greenfield patrol officers contacted Uriel Medina near the intersection of Seventh Street and Oak Avenue. According...

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...

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Union School District was accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition of forward-thinking K-12 school districts organized by Digital Promise, a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner by bringing together solutions across research, practice and...

GREENFIELD — The 246th Battalion of the California Cadet Corps of Greenfield High School had 15 cadets attend the Winter Wilderness Skills Course for four days in January and work to earn their Specialized Training Ribbon. While in the Los Padres National Forest, the cadets...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County schools are likely to remain closed through the end of the 2019-20 school year due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. According to online reports Tuesday, Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Deneen Guss announced in a letter to parents that the...