Thursday, August 28
South Coast residents rally to delay the Highlands Inn's condominium/timeshare plan.
Even before December of 1996, when Highlands Inn Investor II (HII) applied to the county to convert all 143 of Highlands Inn's rooms from "visitor serving" to "condominiums/timeshare" units, neighbors were scrambling to understand the ...
Hatton Canyon is not a dead issue.
Recent headlines about CalTrans' disastrous Hatton Canyon Freeway may lead one to believe that the controversial freeway is about to be built. Don't you believe it! This issue of the Weekly was published in print ...
An international bouillabaisse of fishery professionals mix in Monterey.
An international group of fishery experts met at the Monterey Conference Center this week, with professionals from the American Fisheries Society (AFS) tackling such issues as overfishing, habitat degredation and the need for improved management ...
Can consultants solve Seaside's personnel problems?
Representatives of the El Cerrito-based Mandalay Associates are meeting this month with Seaside officials and employees to assess the magnitude of Seaside's personnel problems. But critics say that the city's decision to bring the consulting ...
Freeway opponents want to know why a federal appeals court reversed itself.
When a federal appeals court last week made an unprecedented reversal of its own year-old ruling challenging the environmental review of the Hatton Canyon Freeway project, jaws dropped in disbelief on both sides of the ...
9 to 5
In honor of Labor Day, we present the following photo essay on some of the men and women working hard in Monterey County. Rick Smith - Greenskeeper at Spanish Bay Leroy Beal - Commercial Fisherman ...
Thursday, August 21
Untold Story
Many expressed surprise at the news earlier this week that two men (Jason Bryan Saboleski, 20, 210 Via Del Pinar Monterey; and Jonathon Earl Maxon, 20, Veteran's Park Ranger Station, Monterey) allegedly attacked a man ...
Today's college classes are a looking glass into the future.
It is no myth that we are a products of our education, and, similarly, that our education is shaped by the demands of our social and economic atmosphere. So, apparently, those who venture to peer ...
Date rape is really a crime and we really need to give our kids the tools they need to combat it.
"Date rape" is one of the most misunderstood crimes in this country. In fact, by legal definition there is no such crime. The term "date rape" was created to bring attention to rape which involves ...
Aircraft museum vies to fly in South Moco.
The land conservation vs. economic development dogfight continues in south Monterey County as a proposed aircraft museum and adjacent tourist complex struggle to get off the ground. This issue of the Weekly was published in ...
When it comes to attracting new businesses, can Seaside afford to be choosy?
Monterey has its Burger King controversy; Seaside has Miracle Auto Painting and Body Repair. Since May, Miracle Auto Painting's efforts to set up shop in a long-vacant building in the Seaside Auto Center have met ...
Do spiraling youth smoking rates signify lost battles in the war on tobacco or a stubborn defiance by twentysomethings who should know better?
...As anti-tobacco activists begrudgedly admit, despite Herculean efforts to reduce smoking rates, particularly among the nations youth, pop-culture's growing re-acceptance of the habit as witnessed through the movies, music videos, and the lifestyle choices of ...
The World Wide Web is making English 101 a little easier.
Thanks to the Internet, getting through college these days is easier than it's ever been. It's plausible now for college students to go through the university system without ever having to write an essay. All ...
All Your Sudents Needs on the Web
Over the past few years, the much-ballyhooed Internet has virtually exploded with educational and informational resources for the enterprising college student. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been ...
Activism takes different faces, but remains an important part of the college experience.
After years of classes and pumping up your high school credentials with volunteer work and club involvement, you are finally in college. Here you are, free from parents and do-gooder expectations. Yet more and more, ...
Staying out of debt may be the smartest thing you can do in college.
The other day I was standing in line at the post office and I heard a small, tinny voice behind me, "Mom, mom, they sent me a credit card! Can you believe it? I'm gonna ...
Mildly wild times reported on local campuses.
College is a time for growth, introspection and intense academia. It is also a time for sex...and lots of it. The lucky Gen-Xers have inherited their parents' '60s-engendered libidos and the time of dating has ...
Thursday, August 14
Rehired workers, union-friendly sale may signal victory for UFW.
When Delfina Corcoles showed up to work in her strawberry crew, the other workers stared at her. They thought they'd never see her in the fields again. But there she was, not only ready to ...
Ribbons, Lambs & Strawberry Jams
Welcome to the 61st Monterey County Fair! On behalf of our dedicated staff, volunteers and the Board of Directors, we wish to thank you each of you for attending our fair. In our constantly changing ...
How to analyze data and compare schools to choose the best one for your kid.
Rosellen Sanna cried and cried and cried after finding out her husband was taking a job in Gilroy. The Sanna family lived in Wisconsin in one of the nation's top-10 public school districts, and Rosellen ...
Once More, With Feeling?
Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have announced they will begin the third search in less than a year for a manager to oversee the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS). This ...
Piles of rubber haunt environmentalists.
On Earth Day last April, earth-minded volunteers went to Carneros Creek, a tributary of Elkhorn Slough, to clean up the refuse that was polluting the area and blocking the channel. This issue of the Weekly ...
Why is Knight-Ridder making Herald employees beg?
When union employees of the Monterey County Herald received notice last week that they were fired but could reapply for their jobs with the paper's new owner, Knight-Ridder, speculation about the company's motives began in ...
There's conservation, and then there's commando conservationists who put us all to shame.
Everyone's seen the statistics before. If you don't conserve, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District estimates you can end up using an average of 210 gallons in just your morning rituals. This issue of the Weekly ...
Thursday, August 7
Pass It On
Area residents planning hikes and day trips into the Los Padres National Forest may need to acquire a new National Forest Adventure Pass before heading out into the wilderness. This issue of the Weekly was ...
Conventional crops make way for ethnics at the marketplace.
Citing a growing sophistication in consumer palate and a corresponding willingness to spend more for dinner, a handful of growers are turning to exotic produce as a way of carving out a specialized niche in ...
Housing emerges as the first big test of Ford Ord reuse
With the Ford Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) embarked on efforts to generate housing for the approximately 37,000 new residents expected to live on the former Army base by the year of 2015, concerns have emerged ...
A Fair-Use Management (FUM) model would give us ample reason to conserve.
The "no-growth dam" proposal put forth by the California-American Water Company (Cal-Am) is an impossibility. If Cal-Am tries to build a new dam on the Carmel River independently, without low-interest municipal-bond funding, the cost (to ...
Flouride will brighten your smile. It may also kill you.
Probably the closest many of us have come to the 50-year controversy over America's favorite dental aid is the classic 1963 Stanley Kubrick movie, Dr. Strangelove-Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the ...
Owners of Granary Market say merger with Whole Foods is a natural change--not the death of a local institution.
After 25 years of independent service to the Monterey Peninsula, the Granary Market announced Tuesday it would merge with natural-foods giant Whole Foods Market of Austin, Texas. This issue of the Weekly was published in ...
