"Bay Area construction company illegally polluted river, lawsuit alleges.” Rpt by Paul Rogers, #MontereyHerald.

Graniterock, "based in Watsonville, has more than 20 offices and locations, incl in San Jose, Concord, Redwood City, South San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Salinas….Lawsuit...stated that the company has been fined four times since 2018 by state #WaterPollution regulators at #CentralCoast Regional Water Quality Control Board. In those cases, settlements required #Graniterock to pay a total of $138K in penalties for water quality violations at the quarry.

"For each of the 46 incidents involved, the board imposed the minimum penalty of $3K, the lawsuit noted, calling it 'tantamount to a #PayToPollute system' for a company with millions of $ in annual revenue.
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“#Pajaro #River, which drains a watershed that extends across parts of #SantaClara, #Monterey, #SanBenito & #SantaCruz counties, meanders through strawberry and other farm fields before emptying into #MontereyBay.”

https://www.montereyherald.com/2026/04/17/prominent-bay-area-construction-company-illegally-polluted-river-lawsuit-alleges/

Report by Kyarra Harris for #MontereyHerald

"Organizers estimated more than 10,000 took part in Saturday afternoon’s #NoKings Day demonstration at Window On the Bay Park in #Monterey.
...

"People lined up on Del Monte Avenue from near Municipal Wharf 2 to about a mile past Camino Aguajito.
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"' I’m retired #military and so is my husband,’ said Sherry Withrow, from Pacific Grove. 'This president has no guardrails and not a day goes by without his insults. How can people succumb to someone like him, who threatens us?’
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“'My sign says "Here comes the sun” and it’s a call to keep showing up, the future is together,' said Mary Catherine Malley, from Salinas who came dressed in a sun costume. 'Protest is part of it, but we need to continue work outside of it too, it’s #NotASpectatorSport.’”

https://www.montereyherald.com/2026/03/29/monterey-no-kings-protest-draws-more-than-10000/

#NoKingsMonterey

https://www.montereyherald.com/2026/03/29/monterey-no-kings-protest-draws-more-than-10000/

#PacificGrove Council discusses regulation options for e-bikes” by Kyarra Harris, #MontereyHerald

"Currently, e-bikes are now allowed in Perkins’ Park, Lovers Point Park, Pacific Grove Golf Links, El Carmelo Cemetery, and the property ocean-side of Ocean View Boulevard to 17th Street. The exception is on the paved portion of the recreational trail.
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“There are regulations in place like e-bikes not being allowed to go over 12mph* or for people to only travel two abreast as to not block the other side of the trail.”

*Note our photo below. For some related Pacific Grove history, with links to some PG ordinances, see: https://bikemonterey.org/regulations-for-e-bikes-electric-assist-bicycles-and-other-non-people-powered-bikes-in-monterey-county-and-elsewhere.html

https://www.montereyherald.com/2026/02/06/pacific-grove-council-discusses-regulation-options-for-e-bikes/“

#MontereyCounty #ebikes

"Protesters in Salinas join nationwide shutdown against ICE”—Report by Chris Hamilton, #MontereyHerald

“This is the salad bowl of the world. There’s a lot of farmworkers here,” said Victoria Gomez, a lifelong Salinas resident at the city hall protest. “These people that are here, planting and harvesting vegetables and fruits for us and for the rest of the country. I think they at least deserve some respect enough to speak up for them.”
https://www.montereyherald.com/2026/01/30/protesters-in-salinas-join-nationwide-shutdown-against-ice/

#MontereyCounty #Salinas #immigrants #SalinasValley #ICE #NationalProtests #NationalStrike #NationalShutdown

"Sand City steps up efforts to build multi-use segment of coastal rec trail” by James Herrera, #MontereyHerald https://www.montereyherald.com/2025/10/30/sand-city-steps-up-efforts-to-build-multi-use-segment-of-coastal-rec-trail/.

#MontereyCounty #infrastructure #bike #walk #skate #scoot #transportation

"Two young boys on #bikes watch as hundreds of people march from Custom House Plaza in Monterey.” March 1972 “Looking Back” photo posted 10/19/25 by Dave Kellogg, #MontereyHerald managing editor, from Monterey County Herald archives. https://www.montereyherald.com/2025/10/19/looking-back-anti-war-demonstrations-of-the-1970s/ #democracy #RightToPeaceablyAssemble

About the constitutional right of the people peaceably to assemble: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/explaining-the-constitutional-right-to-peacefully-assemble

#Constitution #democracy

"FORTAG work through Del Rey Oaks includes Frog Pond Wetland Preserve,” report by James Herrera, staff writer, #MontereyHerald

#MontereyBay #MontereyCounty #Transportation #Infrastructure #ActiveTransportation #FortOrdRegionalTrailAndGreenway #FORTAG #DelReyOaks

https://www.montereyherald.com/2025/06/09/fortag-work-through-del-rey-oaks-includes-frog-pond-wetland-preserve/

California Assembly Bill 1014
#AB1014
#SlowSpeedsSaveLives

Just today a woman who bikes sent me a video showing a motor vehicle as it struck her at the end of West Broadway Urban Village in Seaside. We shuddered to think how much more she’d have suffered if it were going faster.

"So far, the bill has faced no registered opposition and has drawn support from a broad coalition, including the California Bicycle Coalition / #CalBike, Rural County Representatives of California and Streets Are For Everyone. Supervisor Chris Lopez has also shown support for the proposal.” —Report by KYARRA HARRIS in #MontereyHerald

https://www.montereyherald.com/2025/04/28/supervisors-weigh-support-for-traffic-bill-aimed-at-reducing-speed-limits/

#ActiveTransportation #TrafficSafety #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #StreetsAreForEveryone
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty