Gonzales News

California State University, Monterey Bay invites the community to attend the grand opening of its Small Business Development Center, an innovative program that provides counseling and training to small businesses or people who are trying to start them.

Demolition work was being wrapped up at the old Leatherback location. Part of it might be the future site of the local YMCA.

On Tuesday, November 10th at 8:45 a.m. Mount Toro High School in Salinas will honor the nation's veterans in a Special Flag raising ceremony.

Sheriff's officials are looking for a parolee in connection with a burglary that took place in Carmel Valley on Wednesday.

Monterey County sheriff's deputies are looking for a Salinas man who they say was involved in a home-invasion robbery in Carmel Valley and other cases in the area.

Ball fields in Gonzales go dark when the sun goes down. And in the fall, dark seems to come earlier every day, said father of five Fernando Meza.

Poder Popular will hold a public groundbreaking at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Gonzales for the installation of lights at Centennial Park, an effort undertaken to allow farm workers and others who work during daylight hours to use the playing fields after dark.

When schools use pesticides on campus, they post a warning a day before. But when acres of farmland next to classrooms are sprayed with industrial-grade chemicals, often no sign goes up.

By MARIA INES ZAMUDIO and TIA GHOSE * mzamudio@thecalifornian.com and tghose@thecalifornian.com * November 3, 2009 Former Alisal district employee beating veteran board member A 14-year veteran of the Alisal Union School District and a former district employee are ahead in elections to two seats on the board, according to early numbers released by ...

The Monterey County District Attorney's Office said Thursday that the state's highest ranking law officer will take over a Gonzales police officer-involved shooting case.

The following birth announcements were published in the Oct. 24th Salinas Californian.

Miniature bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey lie beside the screwdrivers and nails in John Wright's toolbox.

The Stag Saloon in Gonzales may be gone, but it's certainly not forgotten. "It's the history of California," said former E Clampus Vitus Humbug John Wright.

As a Gonzales City Council member and now as mayor, I have been privileged to work on a variety of issues affecting the Salinas Valley, be it about students, families or jobs.

3 ballot. In Trustee Area 6, which takes in much of the east side of the southern Salinas Valley, county management analyst and Soledad school board member Erica Padilla-Chavez offers an appealing package, combining budgetary smarts and exceptional interest in representing her community.

When a magnitude 6.9 earthquake centered near Santa Cruz shook Salinas and the rest of Monterey County 20 years ago, students had been out of school for at least two hours.

The Boys & Girls Club of San Bernardino invites you to attend this year's annual fundraiser, entitled "Classically Blacka Night at the Symphony" featuring renowned classical pianist Eldred Marshall along with other professional and novice African American classical musicians.

Controversy and chaos continue at the Alisal Union School District as board members fight with each other.

A federally-funded Small Business Development Center will open in Gonzales next month, offering counseling for people from Gilroy to King City.

The Hartnell College board of trustees has made at least two controversial decisions in little more than a year: Appointing a board member to a vacant seat and triggering a $110,000 recall election; and cutting the popular animal-health technician program.