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Lucid’s $50,000 Cosmos spotted testing in California after 2027 delay
The Lucid Cosmos is out testing in California traffic. A camouflaged prototype of the midsize SUV was photographed on Highway 101 in Morgan Hill, about 40 miles south of Lucid’s headquarters in Newark. The four photos show the sub-$50,000 SUV from the rear and the side. They come two...
sanbenito.com
Hollister City Council declares financial emergency
Facing such a bleak financial position that City Hall didn’t have enough cash to pay its employees as of last week, the Hollister City Council on Oct. 2 declared a local “state of financial emergency” and approved a loan of $18 million from its impact fee funds to cover wages and other general fund expenses.
andnowuknow.com
IFPA Hosts Regional Women’s Fresh Perspectives in Salinas, CA; Nikki Wooten, Ginna Wichmann, Beth Atkinson, and Nicole Minnich-Zapata Comment
SALINAS, CA - Location can close doors to access, or it can open them. This is the impact of the new regional pop-up events from the Women’s Fresh Perspectives program. On Friday, September 18th, the program brought women in the industry to Salinas, California, for a casual but high-impact event focused on leadership, professional development, and peer connection.
producebusiness.com
Church Brothers Farms Reimagines Conventional Salad Category With New Three-Tier Assortment
SALINAS, Calif. — Church Brothers Farms, a vertically integrated fresh produce grower and shipper, has announced a new conventional salad blend lineup organized into three distinct, shopper-friendly categories: Toppers, Tender & Sweet, and Crisp Classics. The new architecture spans 12 varieties and is designed to make it easier for...
benitolink.com
Eat, Drink, Savor: Pinnacle Farms a legacy rooted in the land
Equipped with only a shovel and his encyclopedic knowledge of farming, Phil Foster led about 25 agricultural enthusiasts on an hour-and-a-half tour of his Pinnacle Farms in San Juan Bautista on Sept. 19. It was more than a discussion of subjects such as closed-loop composting, cover crops and hedgerows, integrated...
Yahoo!
The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden
Nestled between two mountain ranges at the crook of central California's coastline sits a valley known as the "salad bowl of the world". Farm workers stoop over neatly lined rows of crops off Highway 101 to harvest more than half of the nation's supply of lettuce and nearly a third of its strawberries. The soil here is so rich that author John Steinbeck made the Salinas valley the promised land in his literary depictions of people chasing the American dream: immigrants, farm workers, westward-moving hopefuls, hungering for a better life.
sca-roadside.org
SCA WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW: Oct. 4, 2026
California’s famous giant artichoke restaurant closing after 25-year run, as it lists for $1.8M. From the New York Post: Iconic Castroville restaurant The Giant Artichoke will officially close its doors this week after 25 years under its current owners. In a Monday Facebook post, the restaurant confirmed that Wednesday,...
pajaronian.com
Ending a career of helping farms with nature
After a quarter-century with the Pajaro Valley-based Wild Farm Alliance, Executive Director Jo Ann Baumgartner has recently retired. She has been with the organization for more than 25 years where she started out working on a conventional research farm in the 1980s. After owning an organic farm with her husband...
yieldpro.com
Jonathan Rose Companies Acquires Affordable Housing Community in Santa Cruz California
Jonathan Rose Companies, a leading mission-driven real estate investment and development firm, announced the acquisition of La Posada Apartments, a 150-unit, mixed-income community located at 609 Frederick Street in Santa Cruz, California. This transaction marks the ninth acquisition for the Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund VI and the firm’s second property in Santa Cruz.
thesandpiper.org
Montage Health buys Carmel Rancho Shopping Center for $37.5 million
With a vision of broadening access to healthcare for Monterey Country residents, Montage Health purchased the Carmel Rancho Shopping Center for $37.5 million on April 16, with plans to transform portions of the shopping center into an outpatient medical center. Montage plans to preserve the shopping center’s existing buildings while...
Silicon Valley
Proposal seeks to build more than 100 apartments near major San Jose shopping centers
SAN JOSE — A preliminary proposal filed with city planners calls for the development of a seven-story apartment building near Westfield Valley Fair and Santana Row in San Jose. Should it move forward, a new building with 110 residential units would replace a two-story, 16,900-square-foot commercial building and surface...
hoodline.com
Cupertino Restaurant Sued Over Decade-Old Unpaid Wages, Could Owe $800,000
Santa Clara County's top lawyer has sued a Cupertino restaurant called Liang's Village, alleging its owners spent more than a decade dodging court-ordered wage judgments owed to their own employees — and now the county wants to make them pay up to $800,000 for it. The lawsuit, filed in...