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GREENFIELD — Local youth will soon have a chance to work on their basketball skills with the Greenfield Recreation Department, which will host a four-week basketball camp starting Dec. 5. FULL STORY: https://salinasvalleytribune.com/greenfield-recreation-department-offers-basketball-camp-for-area-youth/

GREENFIELD — Local youth were able to learn important bicycle safety skills and needed bicycle equipment at the Greenfield Community Science Workshop’s Bike Repair Workshop. FULL STORY: https://salinasvalleytribune.com/south-monterey-county-youth-learn-about-bike-repairing-in-greenfield/

GREENFIELD — Detectives from the South County Major Crimes Unit are investigating a homicide that occurred New Year’s Eve in Greenfield. FULL STORY: https://salinasvalleytribune.com/police-investigate-new-years-eve-murder-in-greenfield/

Smoke transported from the massive wildfires currently burning in Northern California, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia may degrade air quality in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties, possibly causing the concentration of smoke to reach unhealthful levels in some parts of the tri-county air basin.

More than 700 wines were featured in the 25th Annual Monterey International Wine Competition and judged by several tables of wine enthusiasts March 3 in the Orradre Building at the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds in King City.

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.

State Water Board bilingual staff, along with Monterey County Public Health, will have a booth to sign up any qualified residents this Sunday for free bottled drinking water if they have domestic wells with high nitrate levels.

Salinas Valley Half Marathon has run its course after nine years, as the Big Sur Marathon Foundation announced this week that the race will be discontinued due to declining participation.

Driving down Broadway at night in the City of King just got brighter and energy efficient to boot with the installation of new street lights.

SALINAS VALLEY — Dozens of students and their family and school staff supporters from South Monterey County were among the hundreds of people in attendance at the 36th Annual Monterey County Fourth and Fifth Grade Spelling Bee. The Feb. 15 event was hosted by the Lyceum of...