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Museum Preserves Legacy Of America's Great Author

AP | By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER | Posted 07.25.2012 | San Francisco
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SALINAS, Calif. -- They were the stuff of another America: Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath." George and Lenny in "Of Mice and Men." Lee Chong, Doc an...

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School Drug Counselor Taped Students Having Sex, Cops Say

Posted 03.22.2012 | Crime
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A drug and alcohol counselor at a California high school is accused of secretly filming students having sexual encounters with one another in his offi...

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Grandma, What Was Styrofoam? An Environmental Victory in Salinas, California

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 10.24.2011 | Green
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Wallace J Nichols

Some day, we will live in petroleum-free communities, free of plastic pollution. These are the first steps -- these small revolutions -- that are building towards that vision.

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Oh, Boy: Giant Baby Born In California

Posted 11.16.2011 | Weird News
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Move over, Glen Davis: the Boston Celtics player's nickname, "Big Baby," might well be stolen by a California newborn. Matthew Anthony Maldanado we...

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First Worldwide Steinbeck Festival Launches This Week

Lori Wood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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This week in Salinas, City of Letters, and in Paris, Hanoi, Mexico City, Berlin, Amsterdam, Krakow and the Sea of Cortez, the first worldwide Steinbeck Festival is under way.

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PHIL HILL DIES AT 81; ONLY AMERICAN-BORN "WORLD CHAMPION OF DRIVING"

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
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America's only US-born Formula One World Champion of Driving, Phil Hill, died August 28th in a Salinas, CA, hospital as a result of respiratory proble...

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