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California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) have announced Assembly Bill 668, the Voting Modernization Bond Act of 2018, which seeks $450 million to improve California’s voting systems.

Two Greenfield students were recently awarded performing arts scholarships from the STAR (Support The Arts Regionally) Foundation of Monterey County.

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 233,000 visitors to Pinnacles National Park in 2017 spent $13.3 million in communities near the park, including the cities of South County.

Ideas are forming for what the future Soledad Satellite Campus for Hartnell College is going to look like.

When Superintendent Daniel Moirao first arrived as state administrator of the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District, the student graduation rates were around 70 percent. As of last year, they rose to 90 percent.

Sun Street Centers’ Road to Success program is offering a chance for youth in South County to make the shift to positive behaviors after having a setback.

Pinnacles National Park is proposing new entrance fee increases in 2018 that will fund services and maintenance to directly benefit park visitors.

Multiple road closures have been announced for when the world’s top professional cyclists come to South County for the Amgen Tour of California on Tuesday, May 15.

Residents of Gonzales, Soledad, Greenfield and King City took part in a Regional Police Survey to help the local law enforcement get feedback on the region.

Gonzales High School FFA Chapter President and Monterey Bay Sectional Reporter Samantha Santos, who was selected as the Monterey County Fair’s 2017 Heritage Scholarship winner, auctioned off two hogs Sept. 2 at the fair, one of which — the heritage hog — sold for more than $33,000.