Thursday, September 25
Local kids hand deliver the message about AIDS and how to prevent it.
"What colors you got?" asks the 14-year-old girl on Monterey's Alvarado Street as she digs deeper into Linda Turturici's condom-filled plastic bag. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not ...
Eight candidates vie for three seats on the Hartnell College board.
Picture the current race for three seats on the Hartnell Board of Trustees as a game of musical chairs; eight contestants, but only three places to sit. All of the players are men, some of ...
Critics charge MPC with backroom maneuvers on East Garrison sites.
Is the Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) Board of Trustees attempting to seize control of the East Garrison property at Fort Ord for exclusive use as a police training facility? This issue of the Weekly was ...
Thursday, September 18
Tired of playing footsie with unresponsive recording companies, musicians take matters into their own hands.
In 1988, it was all coming true. After nearly three decades of practicing tenor saxophone, leading bands in smoking bars and working as a respected sideman for internationally known artists, Harvey Wainapel was on the ...
Is public access television coming to Monterey?
For the first time, residents of the Monterey Peninsula will get to help program a local cable channel. As part of the three-year negotiations between the city of Monterey and Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), the Peninsula's ...
Ted Turner's Foundation aims to fund South Coast projects.
Media mogul Ted Turner and wife Jane Fonda plan on granting $10,000-50,000 to Big Sur residents to pay for some of the needed services that many South Coast-area kids have learned to live without. This ...
Thursday, September 11
Senator Barbara Boxer has her Republican critics, but can one of them unseat her in 1998?
Of the many loaded expressions which have become a part of the modern political lexicon, few pack the emotional and intellectual gunpowder of the L-word: liberal. From the mouths of conservatives, the word "liberal" has ...
Former Monterey County Supervisor and current State Water Resources Control Boardmember Marc Del Piero has a vision for Monterey County. He may have the pull to make those dreams come true.
Two years ago November, Monterey Peninsula voters turned down a proposal by the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD) to construct a new, 24,000 acre foot dam on the Carmel River. This issue of the ...
How intolerance changed my life.
Recently a man, for no reason other than his being gay, was savagely beaten into unconsciousness by the drunken star of a local college football team. My first reaction upon reading about this was anger ...
Sweet Deal
It pays to work for Monterey County. But then again, it also pays not to work for Monterey County. Under the terms of a settlement agreement dated May 30, 1997, between former Director of the ...
What exactly does Monterey's plan dictate for the downtown area?
In an open letter to the Monterey City Council published in local newspapers last month, William Cooley, principal owner of the Monterey Hotel on Alvarado Street, stated his objection to plans for a proposed Burger ...
Four women say work environment at Lake Nacimiento was "hostile."
Four women employed by Monterey County's Park Department to work at Lake Nacimiento in San Luis Obispo County have filed two separate suits against the parks department and four of its supervisors this week. The ...
New legislation aims to protect the Monterey Bay--not a moment too soon, say conservationists.
On both the political and biological fronts, marine and watershed ecosystems in the Monterey Bay region continue to flirt with the point of no return. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only ...
Thursday, September 4
Three decades ago, the oil tanker Montebello sank six miles west of Cambria. There it remains.
As a testament to the West Coast's notoriously short memory, the oil tanker Montebello has a few challengers. Torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the San Luis Obispo coast in 1941, the Montebello and its ...
Pulling The Switch
In response to the pending state deregulation of the electric power industry, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has announced plans to auction off three of its fossil fuel power plants, including the Moss Landing Power ...
Labor, management learn to negotiate Peninsula lodging issues
The Pebble Beach company and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 483 are making nice as they negotiate a new labor agreement, and why not? Employees at the Lodge at Pebble Beach are ...
Burning Issues
Reports that last week's 700-acre fire at Ford Ord may have been the result of unexploded ordinance igniting and jumping a controlled fire line highlights the discrepancies between state and federal cleanup standards and regulations ...
Election Corrections
Next Tuesday the Monterey County Board of Supervisors is expected to give final approval to a new set of campaign finance disclosure rules that supporters say will improve the campaign process in Monterey County elections. ...
Morning-after contraception is uncomplicated and amazingly available
Sixty percent of all pregnancies in the United States are mistakes. It is estimated that half of those unintended pregnancies are the result of contraceptive failure. The rest are the consequence of no protection at ...
A residenial lot's metamorphosis into a natural wonder
Located unexpectedly on a privately owned residential plot in the floodway of the Carmel River Valley is a hideaway for butterflies. The site is easily missed. But the owner of the lot, Dr. Abraham Kryger, ...
Each year, movie studios pour hundreds of millions of dollars into making movies. Are you getting all they paid for at local movie theaters?
A century ago this year, in Paris, the first building was erected for the sole purpose of showing moving pictures. It had only been two years since Louis and Auguste Lumiere presented the first exhibition ...
