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Voices of Monterey Bay’s Youth Engagement Project is a series of stories reported and written by high school and college students that describe efforts on the Central Coast to inspire and help young ...

Twelve years ago while I was editor of The Monterey Herald, we largely stopped endorsing political candidates, local, state and national. I don’t remember exactly how it was explained at the time but ...

Author Chelcey Adami met Maribel Landeros and Karizma Vargas when she wrote about Karizma’s quinceañera. Adami has since become close friends with Landeros.   As light cascades through window shades ...

The Young Voices Media Project provides high school and first- to second-year college students in the Salinas Valley hands-on instruction on the basics of media literacy, critical thinking, journalism ...

Our July 2019 Young Voices Media Project was held in Gonzales, California, where nine high school students from the Salinas Valley spent two weeks learning professional journalism and writing skills.

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Several professionals described available evidence-based treatments for mental health issues like PTSD, depression, and anxiety during a free live-streaming presentation on Feb. 17. Voices of Monterey ...

Salinas-area educators speak out on the teacher shortage.

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