FOOTBALL FALLOUT
KING CITY — Board members from King City Stangs Football and Cheer announced June 25 that their teams will not participate in Monterey Bay Youth Football League for the 2020 season. On June 24, the Football League officially suspended the 2020 season due to Covid-19 concerns. Stangs announced that athletes and their parents will receive full refunds if they had already paid for fees or gear. Fundraiser money is being deferred to the 2021 season, or can be donated to the program.
ROAD REPAIRS
MONTEREY COUNTY — California Transportation Commission has approved more than $1.8 billion to repair highways and bridges and improve the state’s growing network of pedestrian, bicycle and mass transit routes. This investment includes funding for three projects within Caltrans District 5: $8.6 million to perform a seismic retrofit of two bridges, install rock slope protection and rehabilitate the bridge decks at the San Antonio River Bridge on Highway 101 in Monterey County; $6.1 million to construct maintenance vehicle pullouts, gore and center median paving to reduce the exposure of highway workers to traffic on Highway 101 at various locations in Monterey and Sen Benito counties; and $1.4 million to rehabilitate a deteriorated culvert, repair erosion, improve drainage and prevent highway damage on State Route 1, south of the Limekiln Creek Bridge near Lucia in Monterey County. The approved funding is from federal and state gas taxes.
STAYING ON TRACK
GREENFIELD — Monterey County health officials have urged residents to cancel their Covid-19 testing appointments if they are unable to make the testing time. The overwhelming response from residents at Monterey’s County’s free Optum Testing Sites, including one in Greenfield, has resulted in sites being booked to capacity. The side effect of the mass bookings is a high no-show rate for testing times, resulting in individuals who could have been tested for contact tracing referrals being turned away. Those who are unable to make it to their scheduled time can cancel by either going to https://lhi.care or calling 1-888-634-1123.
