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Mix Master

Mixed drinks make a comeback in Monterey County and around the country.

In the megalopoli on both coasts and other hip places around the country, cocktails are making a big comeback in bars and nightclubs. And we're not talking about the drinks you watched the grownups swill ...

Issues / 1997 / Oct 23

True Horror

For the victims of domestic violence, bumps in the night are terrifying.

October is the month of goblins, skeletons and things that go bump in the night. It's a time for horror shows and haunted houses. For some, those bumps in the night mean another typical night ...

After The Fall

MPC Board candidates will have their work cut out for them.

Scandal usually makes for very interesting political races. Usually, but not always. Case in point, consider the current race for two seats on the Monterey County Peninsula College Board of Trustees... This issue of the ...

Stay the Course?

Salinas race pits challengers against incumbents.

On Nov. 4, three men and one woman in two separate Salinas City School District races will battle it out for the opportunity to serve on the new board of trustees and implement their ideas ...

In Case of Emergency

Anti-tax stalwarts balk at a tax for city ambulance service, even if it could save their lives.

Few people would argue that good ambulance service should top a community's priority list, especially when the average age of its residents inches closer toward retirement age each year... This issue of the Weekly was ...

Squid Fry

Squid Fry

I Thought I Had Left LA... Last Saturday, in a horrible moment of deja vu, Squid sat in the traffic bottle neck on Lighthouse Avenue at Reeside thinking back to those months and months of ...

News Briefs: Roadblock

Roadblock

If it's true that "money makes the world go round," then the lack thereof should bring the world to a grinding halt. That at least is the conclusion of the 1997 Monterey County Civil Grand ...