Searching for Steinbeck
Is it the Salinas Valley or the Monterey Peninsula that can claim the quintessential Steinbeck?
Perhaps it's an inferiority complex of location, born of our distance from the Patriot's Trail and all the places that George Washington might have slept. Perhaps it's our lack of big-city sophistication--our inability to be ...
Issues / 1994 / Aug 04
For Freedom's Sake
Locals recall Freedom Summer, 1964.
More than heat and humidity oppressed Mississippi landscape 30 years ago this summer. Change was in the wind, and it struck like a tornado, demanding commitment, courage and perseverance in the midst of hatred, chaos ...
Polluted Waters Run Deep
Contamination shuts down wells throughout the Salinas Valley.
All is not well with Salinas wells. Nitrate contamination forced California Water Service Company to close three wells during the last two weeks of June. Nitrates now joins saltwater intrusion in the pool of area ...
