Dear Readers,
Patrice Pastor and the coastal commission have hammered out a lengthy, detailed agreement on public access and other issues that paves the way for the iconic Rocky Point restaurant to be redeveloped. Mary Schley has the story.
Supervisors voted this week to spend $1 million on eucalyptus tree removals in North Monterey County. Chris Counts has the details.
While a lot of attention has been focused on water reclamation, Cal Am has been quietly meeting the permit requirements for its Marina desal plant. Kelly Nix reports.
State housing mandates for Carmel Valley have apparently been reduced by almost half. When Carmel school board elections are held by districts this fall for the first time, all but one seat will be up for grabs. A dentist has been hit with big fines for claiming reimbursement for services he never performed. One of Big Sur’s big landslides will be cleared and a portion of Highway 1 will reopen in July, Caltrans says. Rep. Jimmy Panetta recently returned from a trip to Taiwan, where the possibility of a Chinese invasion was a big topic of discussion. A drive to remove a member of the P.G. economic development commission failed. The county health department will be sending a $900,000 mobile health clinic to places where limited medical services are available. U.S. taxpayers will help pay for flood control work in Carmel Valley. Dennis Taylor reports that one local equestrian says not thinking is an important element of her success. Jerry Gervase explains the role coffee (and coffee houses) played in launching the Enlightenment. We have a special section honoring this year’s high school graduates, including the memories, hopes and dreams of valedictorians, what the Class of 2024 thinks about the state of the world they’re inheriting, a guide to how they made the decisions about what colleges to attend, and an overview of some young dancers’ next steps. And my editorial says even Alfred Hitchcock sometimes got things wrong.
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