Some growers are turning to a new version of the old-time flypaper.
A series of odd looking metal contraptions holding 32-inch wide-rolls of sticky yellow paper dot the landscape of Sam McKinsey's 1,000 acres of vegetables in the Blanco region outside Salinas and another 800 acres in ...
Hammered by the March floods and the Loma Prieta quake, Pajaro struggles to rebuild itself.
The bridge leading from Pajaro into Watsonville hasn't been repaired since it was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. But just feet away from that battered bridge--almost in defiance of the broken-down reminder of ...
Local advertisers slowly realize the buying power of Spanish-speaking consumers.
When The Monterey County Herald supplement La Voz succumbed last month, the Salinas-based weekly El Sol became the only Spanish language publication in all of Monterey County--a county where nearly one resident in four would ...
Dwindling Fort Ord services starts to take its toll on local military retirees.
Rowland Brown survived three years as a Marine in World War II. He was wounded three times in Korea but he survived that, too. And he survived a tour in Viet Nam. But Rowland and ...
Containing The Rage
In a back room of the First United Methodist Church across the street from the Steinbeck Library in Salinas, Ralph Lopez is helping troubled teenagers learn alternatives to violence. This issue of the Weekly was ...
New legislations seeks to make growers responsible for their labor contractors.
A group of Salinas Valley agricultural laborers are still waiting to be aid for the two weeks they worked last November and December. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has ...
Salinas shootings
A series of shootings in Salinas this month will end 1992 as the most violent twelve months in the city's history, excepting perhaps the bitter farm labor clashes of the 1930s and late 1970s. This ...
Redistricting and the Struggle for Representation
Throughout its history, Monterey County has purchased relative political calm at the price of leaving members of ethnic communities without representation. Until the 1970s, Hispanics were unable to elect their own to even the councils ...
Down on...
For nearly a decade the 100 block of Main Street has stood in the heart of downtown Salinas as a desolate and embarrassing monument to the power of governmental inaction. While most of the rest ...
Rusty's Last Challenge
An Achilles heel is what Watsonville City Planning Commissioner Maria Corralejo is hoping to find in state Assemblyman Rusty Areias' campaign for re-election. But Corralejo's facing long odds as she tries to win the Democratic ...
The new City Council majority has cooperated on important issues so far, but Salinas' problems aren't going away, yet.
A symbol of hope that the younger generation from the Hispanic Alisal neighborhood can escape the mean streets opened last summer in a Langendorf Bread warehouse. This issue of the Weekly was published in print ...
Salinas Council Elections
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Farming Without Pesticides
On a modest 3.5-acre strawberry field off Natividad Road outside Salinas, Rob Webb is watching hopefully to learn if the destructive verticillum wilt, which conventional growers kill by applying massive quantities of the deadly fumigant ...
Exporting Monterey Goods
With 700 workers at two Simplot plants in Salinas now out of work because the firm decided it could no longer compete against cheaper frozen vegetables coming in from Mexico, the saga continues of local ...
