Coast Weekly's annual short story contest of 1997.
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Issues / 1997 / Dec 18
LandWatch Monterey County needs you.
Can the urban sprawl of San Jose or Los Angeles happen here? The increase in traffic. The rise in crime. The overcrowding of our schools. The air pollution. The relentless annexation of precious agricultural lands ...
State, graphic artists tangle over what is taxable.
Rhoda Grossman stores all of her cash in either "my sock drawer or my ample cleavage." The Sausalito-based caricature artist says that way, the State Board of Equalization (BOE) can't get what few dollars she ...
Is the sun setting over Sunset Plans?
After six years of microscopic review and acrimonious debate, and finally, a plan almost everyone agreed on, a new twist in the Sunset Center conundrum has city officials shaking their heads in disbelief... This issue ...
Plans to raze 300-year-old tree draws fire.
As Pebble Beach takes steps toward long-promised golf course improvements, a handful of opponents struggle to save a stand of oak, pine and cypress trees destine for a chainsaw making way for a proposed fairway,.. ...
Investigative reporter Gary WEbb leaves the Mercury News in the wake of the CIA-cocaine furor.
The Sacramento-based reporter who sparked a journalistic firestorm with his 1996 series exposing the CIA's crack cocaine connection has left the San Jose Mercury News last week in the wake of being banished to a ...
Volunteering is a worthwhile endeavor for just about anyone.
There's something about the holidays that seems to prompt the philanthropic spirit, something that means "helping out" is at the top of many people's New Year's resolutions... This issue of the Weekly was published in ...
Assembly speaker Cruz Bustamante tries to drum up Democrat support.
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Steinbeck's Pearl
The National Steinbeck Center has announced that construction of its new 37,000 square foot museum honoring the life and work of native son John Steinbeck should be completed in May with the center's grand opening ...
Weed and Seed
The city of Salinas is applying to the US Department of Justice for a $100,000 grant to fund an ambitious anti-crime, community building program called "Weed and Seed," which is currently being used in 50 ...
Out Of The Starting Gate
In anticipation of the start of county hearings on the Pebble Beach Company's proposal to construct 316 new homes and a golf course in Del Monte Forest, the company has sent off letters to numerous ...
