Thursday, October 26
Salinas Peppers finish first season with impressive win record, but problems off the diamond.
From a box seat along the first baseline, the Salinas Peppers first season looked pretty good as the beginning team chalked up the most impressive record of wins in the entire Western Baseball League (WBL). ...
Going Too Farr?
A letter from the Friends of Farr Campaign Committee urging Sam Farr supporters to write local newspapers "questioning the merits" of Republican Jess Brown's congressional candidacy has brought charges by Brown campaign manager Greg Adams ...
Politics may have sidelined Margaret Felts' aggressive approach to toxic clean-up--and jeopardized environmental safety around the state.
When Gov. Pete Wilson appointed a Republican consultant, Margaret Felts, to be a high-level administrator in a much-criticized unit of the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), she was presumably expected to bring her ...
The new Embassy Suites is only the beginning of big development plans in Seaside.
In a hallway in the back of city hall, Mayor Don Jordan likes what he sees. A scale model of the city is laid out on a group of sturdy wooden tables. Teeny white and ...
Thursday, October 19
Water board elections focus on district's viability.
How do you mount an effective political campaign for elected office for an agency you're convinced has outlived its usefulness? That's the dilemma confronting candidates for seats on the board of the Monterey Peninsula Water ...
City officials say families can help curb violence.
Salinas city officials and parents agree that greater parental involvement could go a long way toward preventing the kind of violence that earlier this month left nine people injured in a spray of gunfire in ...
Behind Closed Doors?
A Sept. 26 gathering featuring the superintendent and three trustees of the North Monterey County Unified School District has raised questions about possible violations of the state's open meeting law. This issue of the Weekly ...
The Second Annual Guide
They aren't, as a rule, as spacious or as pristine as the bar made famous on television's "Cheers," but the neighborhood bars that dot MoCo's landscape reflect the personality of their particular community. This issue ...
Thursday, October 12
Armed and Dangerous
The most recent outbreak of gang violence in Salinas that left nine people injured Saturday night is a result of "automatic weapons in the hands of kids and young adults" who have "number one, very ...
Desal option revisited on the Peninsula.
As Peninsula voters face decision day next month on the proposed $116 million New Los Padres Dam, the specter of that proposal, replete with the threat of unctuous real estate developers and gridlock traffic, has ...
Twenty years old this week, Marina ponders what it wants to be when it grows up.
"There is no there there" Gertrude Stein said about Oakland. But she might just as well have been talking about Marina, the sleepy little almost-Peninsula community of 18,000 whose greatest claim to fame has traditionally ...
PG school candidates stress the need for new revenue sources.
Money may be the root of all evil, but it definitely appears to be the key issue in the upcoming Pacific Grove Unified School District, where six candidates are competing for two open slots, and ...
MoCo wine grape harvest produces low yields.
As if the flooding wasn't bad enough, Monterey County continues to pay for the enormous amount of rainfall it endured last spring. Wine grape growers report their harvest down by "25 to 40 percent" from ...
Thursday, October 5
Salinas school races generate hot competition.
Worries over class sizes appear to be the dominant issue in next month's school board elections in the Washington Union, Salinas City, Alisal and Santa Rita Union school districts, according to the candidates in each ...
Growth, finances and trust in the Peninsula water district will determine the fate of the New Los Padres Dam.
"Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again," says the book of Ecclesiastes. that's a bit of prescient advice Monterey Peninsula voters may want to keep in mind ...
Community groups want history honored in Bixby retrofit.
Bixby Creek Bridge's graceful 714-foot arch rising 265 feet over a steep canyon on the Big Sur coast has made it a California landmark since 1932. But how to shore-up 63-year-old concrete without changing the ...
