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Foodie Chap: Interview with Chef Michael Rotondo

Foodie Chap: Interview with Chef Michael Rotondo

Monterey, CA · 15d

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Old Aptos Golf Course Site Hits Market With Nearly 500 Homes Planned

A broker has begun marketing townhomes planned for the long-vacant Aptos Par 3 golf course site, even as the broader project awaits formal approval from Santa Cruz County. The proposal, called Village on the Green, would bring market-rate townhomes and affordable apartments to 2600 Mar Vista Drive, on land that has sat empty since the golf course closed in 2000.

Santa Cruz County, CA · 18d
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Canyons Gets Back in Win Column, Sofia Allard Earns Medalist Honors

College of the Canyons women’s golf returned to its winning ways with a 20-stroke team victory during the Western State Conference tournament played at Rancho Vista Golf Course on Monday, Oct. 19. Canyons (45-5, 34-2 WSC), playing in its third conference event across the last 10 days, bounced back...

California · 16d
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Paso Robles Daily News

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Coastal Commission opens art and poetry contest for K-12 students

– The California Coastal Commission is accepting entries for its California Coastal Art and Poetry Contest for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students can enter online or by mail. The entry deadline is Thursday, Jan. 28, at 5 p.m., and winners will be announced in April 2027, according to the commission’s flyer.

California · 16d

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Calles Libres Celebration November 1 in Watsonville

Calles Libres will turn streets around Callaghan Park and Brennan Street into a car-free space for a free Día de los Muertos celebration from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1. The event will include biking, art, wellness activities, family games, food vendors, music and cultural performances. Activities include a bike rodeo, repair.

Watsonville, CA · 19d

wheninyourstate.com

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Inside the Carmel mission where history isn’t behind glass, it’s under your feet

There’s a hilltop in Carmel-by-the-Sea where a stone church has been standing for more than two centuries, and most people drive right past it. Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, the second of California’s 21 Spanish missions, is both a working Catholic parish and a history museum you can walk through room by room.

California · 18d

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Watsonville native’s journey from farmworker family to tech career is focus of new documentary

➤ Para leer el artículo en español, haga clic aquí. When documentarian Consuelo Alba-Speyer first met Martín Vargas-Vega in 2014, he was the student body president at Cabrillo College. However, he faced a key obstacle to his education: a laptop that barely worked. In the footage,...

Watsonville, CA · 19d

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The Best Photos From Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort's October Snowstorm

At one of California's best known ski resorts, three to five inches of snow fell this week, providing a very welcome tease ahead of the 2026-27 ski season.

California · 19d

TheSixFifty.com

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From crafts and ofrendas to live music and dancing, here’s how to celebrate Día de los Muertos in Silicon Valley

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Día de los Muertos is traditionally celebrated Nov. 1-2, but festivities have already begun in Silicon Valley. The Mexican holiday to honor and celebrate the dead includes live music and dancing, crafts like sugar skull decorating, food and ofrendas, altars decorated with candles, photos and mementos of loved ones who have died. On the Peninsula, it also includes Día de los Muertos-inspired ballet, a remembrance walk and lotería (a game similar to bingo). Read on for The Six Fifty’s guide to Day of the Dead celebrations in San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara County.

Silicon Valley, CA · 19d

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He helped mix Taylor Swift’s ‘Red.’ Now this Grammy-nominated sound engineer calls Aptos home

To get to Math Bishop’s studio, you will snake into the woods of Aptos. The redwoods will crowd up next to your car as you white-knuckle a couple of hairpin turns. You will cross a bridge covered in moss. The road will not always be paved. Sometimes it will be a bit dark as the thick tree cover blocks out the sky. It will be completely quiet.

Aptos, CA · 20d

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The State of Jefferson: A place, an idea, and the name behind Jefferson Public Radio

Jefferson Public Radio (JPR) adopted its name in 1989 as a way to recognize the broad reach of its network, which grew from a single 10-watt station serving Ashland to become one of the largest public radio networks in the nation. JPR’s coverage area roughly follows the imagined boundaries of the State of Jefferson, making the name a natural fit.

California · 17d

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Monterey County celebrates 150 years of the pioneering artist Jo Mora.

JO MORA WAS A SCULPTOR, ILLUSTRATOR, WRITER AND MAPMAKER whose work can be found at the Carmel Mission and the Monterey County Superior Courthouse in Salinas. Yet the Uruguayan-born artist, who spent his later years on the Monterey Peninsula and died in 1947, remains relatively unknown. Peter Hiller, who has...

Monterey County, CA · 20d

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The Sunset Center has been the hub of Carmel for 100 years. To celebrate, it’s throwing a party.

IF YOU HAVE EVER WALKED THROUGH DOWNTOWN CARMEL, you have probably noticed and admired the massive Sunset Cultural Center complex. Its handsome facade faces San Carlos Street, and its parking lot sprawls along 8th Avenue. Today it is a concert venue that hosts many musical groups, and home to two...

Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA · 20d

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Calif. Library Assn. to Present President’s Award to Robert Karatsu

The California Library Association (CLA) has announced the recipients of its 2026 awards, honoring the library staff, libraries, supporters, authors and illustrators whose work has strengthened communities across the state. “Each year, these awards give us the chance to celebrate the people and institutions who make California libraries such vital...

California · 18d

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How the California Gold Rush sped up the arrival of the Civil War

Today on The Point, we talk with Nathanial Philbrick about his new book The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World. In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history as hundreds of thousands of people raced west in pursuit of sudden wealth, reinvention, and power.

New Bedford, MA · 20d

montereycountynow.com

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Owners of The Rose Books and Obscurities plan to expand to a used book and coffee shop in downtown Pacific Grove.

The vault inside the historic bank building at 580 Lighthouse Ave. in downtown Pacific Grove hasn't seen money or gold in it in years. But husband-and-wife business team Ernest and Yasmine Rose, who own The Rose Books and Obscurities in downtown Monterey, have plans for it. They are keeping the...

Pacific Grove, CA · 20d

Morgan Hill Times

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MOHI Food & Wine Fest raises thousands for career education

The third annual MOHI Food & Wine Festival returned to downtown Morgan Hill Oct. 18, with organizers saying all proceeds will again go to culinary programs in the Morgan Hill Unified School District. Presented by Léal Hospitality and Appellation Hotels, a culinary-focused luxury hospitality brand co-founded by chef Charlie Palmer,...

Morgan Hill, CA · 21d