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Hot summer days are upon the residents of South Monterey County, and one way to stay cool during those warm days is jumping into one of the pools in King City, Greenfield, Soledad and Gonzales.

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Police Department has entered the new year under the command of Capt. James Hunt, the acting chief since late May. The shift in leadership began after Chief Denise Chavez Oglesby was placed on administrative leave, but it came with finalization when the Greenfield City Council...

GREENFIELD — Greenfield City Council has approved the acceptance of $461,000 in state funding in order to respond to local youth programs designed to divert teens away from crime. FULL STORY: https://salinasvalleytribune.com/community-raises-concerns-over-potential-school-resource-officer-at-greenfield-high/

Greenfield celebrated America’s independence last Thursday with live music and dancing, food trucks, face painting and other family-friendly activities at Patriot Park.

Students from King City, Greenfield and Soledad high schools recently visited the California State Capitol in Sacramento to speak with local legislators as part of the Girls Inc. of the Central Coast ECHO program.

A group of the Peregrine Fund’s California condors will soon be unfurling their nine-and-a-half-foot wings to soar the skies of central California, but first they have to get from the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, all the way to central California, where the National Park Service and the Ventana Wildlife Society will release the condors from their respective sites at Pinnacles National Park and in Big Sur.

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 — An official search for Greenfield’s next permanent chief of police was announced in April by the city. FULL STORY: https://salinasvalleytribune.com/greenfield-begins-search-for-new-police-chief/

After providing 50 years of addiction services in Monterey County, Sun Street Centers is expanding into King City and will celebrate the opening of its newest drug and alcohol treatment facility with a ribbon cutting this Friday.

SALINAS VALLEY — A secret garden named Lesnini Field has been created along the Salinas River in South Monterey County to showcase art and to emphasize discovery. Created by California-based visual artist and writer Erik Bakke and Dutch visual artist and educator Andre Dekker in...