Local News

Gonzales High School senior Cindy Aguilar-Castaneda has been selected to represent California at the 57th annual U.S. Senate Youth Program, sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation for students interested in pursuing careers in public service.

A fifth-grade teacher at Arroyo Seco Academy in Greenfield has been teaching her students to create computer programming code and was recently visited by Google representatives who observed the classroom in action.

Greenfield Christmas in the Park brought lots of joy and goodies for hundreds of youth and their families last Saturday at the Village Park gazebo.

One hundred elementary school children in Soledad and 50 in Greenfield are enjoying new shoes this Christmas thanks to the generosity of a Soledad church.

Oak Avenue Elementary School students are looking to their future and recently had the chance to learn about different careers during the school’s annual Career Day visits.

Thanks to the hard work of teachers at Vista Verde and the generosity of the Marine Sanctuary and Ocean Guardian Grant, local students have become stewards of the Arroyo Seco River this year.

Salinas Valley Fair Heritage Foundation has selected Ivan Trujillo of Greenfield for the 2019 Heritage Foundation Scholarship.

One of Greenfield’s own city officials, Councilmember Yanely Martinez, received the honor of Best Elected Official of the Year by the California Public Library Advocates.

Sun Street Centers recently celebrated its South County STOMP at the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds, bringing in more than $125,000 in one night to support the new substance abuse treatment facility in King City.

Little ones, and even big ones, recently received an opportunity to see ballet in a different light when “The Nutcracker Ballet” readers theater program visited local libraries in November.