Thursday, August 25
Two groups monitor the Fort Ord reuse process.
The only round of applause the watchdog Citizens Action Group (CAG) ever received at a Fort Ord meeting was last year when a member promised that CAG would disband once there was a single governing ...
Monterey County's wines are already turning heads and thrilling palates.
When people discuss fine California wine, Napa and Sonoma are the wine regions they talk about. However, Monterey County has blossomed into one of the premier wine regions in California. This issue of the Weekly ...
Laguna Seca offers up 559 acres of adventure and fulfills racing fantasies.
Not even an off-Broadway playwright with the kinkiest imagination could have dreamed up a plot which has President Richard Nixon, in the same month in 1970, setting in motion his own downfall at the same ...
Thursday, August 18
Dressing for success is starting to mean public school uniforms.
Concerns about violence on the school yard has led educators locally and around the state to a policy once popular only on private school campuses--uniforms. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only ...
Educators are learning to recognize and encourage resilient children.
When Ricardo was growing up poor in Watsonville, not many people thought he would become the successful man that he is today. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not ...
Hartnell College Program helps students nail down jobs.
A unique new program at Hartnell Community College is offering "high risk" teenagers a change to build their futures--literally. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been digitally uploaded. ...
Ten years ago, the first crack babies were born. Today, educators are struggling to ensure these students get the extra help they need to succeed.
A six-year-old boy sits in a classroom, one among 30 first-graders working awkwardly with a pencil to perfect the letters of the alphabet. But he isn't laboring at his paper. He is holding his pencil ...
Two new laws give parents more flexibility about where they educate their kids.
Patty Ingle and her family recently faced what could have been a case of dueling school schedules. Her daughter had just graduated from a year-round school which her brother still attended and was slated to ...
Thursday, August 11
The first round of the 19th annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition comes to Planet Gemini.
Career upheaval occurs in strange and--in this case--funny places. Just ask former journalists Anne and Jon Fox. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been digitally uploaded. To read ...
WIll the Bishop Ranch project will send us all to traffic hell?
An ambitious development proposed for Bishop Ranch, located near Laguna Seca on Highway 68, has raised the ire of locals who lives among the already congested strip between Monterey and Salinas. This issue of the ...
Thursday, August 4
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
