1+ week, 2+ day ago   (309+ words) King City Police Chief Robert Masterson is one of the defendants named in Jonas Lalehzadeh’s lawsuit, which seeks a court order blocking KCPD agency from removing cannabis plants. AI seems to be in the headlines every hour now, moving to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (597+ words) “I’m ready,” says Freddy Ortiz, a restaurant veteran who is a first-time owner. While leaving the menu unchanged, Ortiz has already made Alfredo’s Pastaria & Mozzarella Bar feel like his own. It’s not that the dining room is still. Talk and laughter…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (287+ words) Los campos petroleros de San Ardo. In the same oil field that experienced a 4,000-gallon spill less than a year ago, eight new oil and gas wells have been approved for Aera Energy in San Ardo. These are the first…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (295+ words) The West End Celebration in Sand City (11am-6pm on Saturday, Aug. 22 and 11am-5pm Sunday, Aug. 23) is not only about music, food and drink. Art has been the part of the fest since 2002—next year West End will be 25 years old. Sand City…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (487+ words) Soon after a lawsuit was filed against the owners of Ruvalcaba Nursery in 2023, the Ruvalcabas installed a gate blocking access to their San Miguel Canyon Road property. The owners of a Royal Oaks nursery accused of housing workers in makeshift…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (449+ words) The Sand City Collections hotel project includes plans to clean up industrial debris at the end of Tioga Avenue and create public amenities, including parking, restrooms and beach access. The coastline north of Tioga Avenue in Sand City may eventually…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (308+ words) The Buzz 08.20.26 Monterey County Weekly FREE SPEECHIt’s journalism 101: Journalists should never accept payments from sources in order to avoid conflicts of interests, or the appearance of such a conflict But journalists are humans, and sometimes have a lapse in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (256+ words) Oil painter Wendy Chidester represents contemporary realism. She puts old, venerated objects – typically well-made, beautiful and solid – in the aesthetic and physical center of her pieces, paying homage not only to the sentiments those objects invoke (a pair of old-fashioned…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (310+ words) You would think that the taste of salt would need no explanation. Yet there are nuances that set sel gris harvested in Brittany apart from Peru’s mountain salt pans, England’s Maldon or the red-tinged crystals from Hawaiian waters. Let Ben…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (262+ words) When Facebook and Instagram first became ubiquitous, it seemed nothing less than miraculous. Many of us were excited, reconnected. Bradley Zeve here to say that I was. For me, it’s insidious. The tech companies that created this intriguing medium have…...