Salinas gang member turned over to feds through Operation Ceasefire

•March 12, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Police say the arrest of a Salinas man by federal authorities reflects the tougher side of Operation Ceasefire and a signal to gang members to take the anti-gang program seriously.

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All Alisal District principals to get layoff notices

•March 11, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Citing the urgency to improve academic performance at its 12 schools, the Alisal Union School District Board of Trustees put all of its school principals on notice that their jobs are in jeopardy.

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Salinas musician Lolly Vegas of Redbone remembered

•March 10, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Before the world knew him as Lolly Vegas of the 1970s band Redbone, Lolly Vasquez, with brother Pat and friend Robert Howard, played the Salinas club circuit in the 1950s.

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Salinas soup kitchen dreams of culinary school, cafe

•March 10, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Dorothy’s Place on Soledad Street has plans to turn its longtime soup kitchen into a culinary school by fall, and ultimately add a cafe for the public.

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King City police, community respond to year’s third homicide

•March 9, 2010 • Leave a Comment

King City officials said Monday they are doing all they can to calm tensions and stop other gang violence following the city’s third homicide of the year.

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Salinas using CalGRIP grant to hire anti-gang coordinator

•March 9, 2010 • Leave a Comment

A state grant to help Salinas combat gang violence will be divided among three nonprofits and used to hire a full-time coordinator for the Community Alliance on Safety and Peace, or CASP, officials announced Monday.

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Soledad inmates begin hunger protest against Three Strikes law

•March 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Hundreds of inmates at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad are fasting in protest to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the signing of the California Three Strikes law.

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Monterey County men’s group amps efforts with Salinas to Fort Ord move

•March 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment

A program to help Monterey County homeless men find a job and a home is relocating from Salinas’ Chinatown to the former Fort Ord.

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Carmel student wins back-to-back county science fairs

•March 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment

With more than 4.1 billion cell phone text messages sent out every day, Dylan Freedman said he wanted to find a way to make sending a text more efficient.

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‘Army of Peace’ marches in to King City

•March 5, 2010 • Leave a Comment

The Rev. Edgar Mohorko reached his hand out over a white picket fence to give Elizabeth Ramirez a piece of paper.

“Peace Now” it said on the flier.

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