Thursday, September 28
Discovery of a dummy grenade raises questions about UXO on campus.
The discovery last week of a phony hand grenade on the new college campus at Fort Ord was an explosive reminder of a once-vociferous debate on whether the Army acted rashly in conveying the 1,365-acre ...
Literacy may reduce prison time--and recurring crime.
Prisons today are bursting at the seams and Soledad Correctional Training Facility, with 6,149 inmates (over twice its capacity) in the south part of the county, is no exception. This issue of the Weekly was ...
Salinas High board faces challengers.
If elected in November, candidates for three seats on the Salinas Union High School Board of Education can look forward to immediately facing such problems as overcrowding, inadequate capacity for technological instruction, classroom violence and ...
In the surreal world of immigration policies, three man patrol three and a half counties, and their quarry is often back within days.
It is the silence that speaks the loudest here. It echoes through room after green-hued room of this particular US Border Patrol station that squats on Alisal Street, beyond the lettuce fields of Salinas. This ...
Thursday, September 21
Salinas High renovations will take an extra year.
School officials at Salinas' oldest high school say it will take an additional year to complete the $24 million renovation and remodeling of Salinas High School, with move-in now scheduled for the fall of the ...
Candidates in the two community college district elections face similar battles.
While MoCo's two community colleges, Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) and Hartnell, may seem as disparate as the cities of Monterey and Salinas themselves, the issues surrounding elections at the two colleges are remarkably similar. This ...
Efforts to preserve Carmel Valley's rural character could--ironically threaten the heart of the community.
As dawn spreads the sun's warming rays above the hills overlooking Carmel Valley Village, the sleepy tranquility of the morning's routine is disturbed only by the familiar drone and buzzing of the countless single-engine aircraft ...
Thursday, September 14
After three years, what has MJF Director/Manager Tim Jackson wrought?
He was hired both to stay the course and chart new territory, to exercise hands-on managerial skills and foster an ambience of creative artistry. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and ...
Salinas and PG ask voters to put their money on the line to support schools.
Feeling the pinch of California's tightened education budget, both the Salinas Union School District and the Pacific Grove Unified School District will try to raise money for schools in November. This issue of the Weekly ...
Salinas march slated.
The momentum the United Farm Workers (UFW) acquired last year, a year after the death of famed union organizer Cesar Chavez, is still going strong locally, say organizers, who recently claimed a victory organizing workers ...
Thursday, September 7
Surround union drive at the Monterey Plaza.
As allegations and counter-allegations surrounding the eight-week-old union boycott of Monterey Plaza Hotel swirl around faster than tropical storms, new fronts keep appearing. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has ...
Bill, Meet CSUMB
A huge and hugely ecstatic crowd greeted President Clinton on his Labor Day visit to dedicate the new California State University Monterey Bay on Monday. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only ...
A look at how the cost of living in Monterey County stacks up.
As quests go, the quest to find cheap things is certainly one of the most enduring. Whether it's cheaper rent, gasoline, groceries or blue jeans, most of us are always thinking we can get "it" ...
New Los Padres vote will include battles over dollars.
With Labor Day over and election season officially underway, Peninsula voters can bet on a whole lot of ink, rhetoric and dollars being waged in the battle over building the New Los Padres Dam. And ...
Laguna Seca answers the concerns of its Highway 68 neighbors.
The bucolic beauty of the rolling hills and pastures along Highway 68 belies the inevitable stresses caused by an evolving local economy and urban encroachment along the sole link between the two major cities of ...
