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In this week's roundup of local news: local farms hit by lower lettuce demand, Salinas City Council extends a moratorium on new tobacco shops, Murray Street bridge work reaches midpoint, nurses protest layoffs, a local tribe regains stewardship of 84 acres, and more.
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Eva Augustina Sinotte
Inspired by the Monterey Peninsula’s coastline, Reading by the Sea by Eva Augustine Sinotte, illustrated by Harley Scroggins, takes readers on a day trip down Highway 1 to the beach. Through the eyes of a local family, readers learn about Monterey’s local environment and the meaningful simplicity of spending time together by the sea.
- The Catalyst, facing an uncertain future, reopens its historic Atrium stage in Santa Cruz
- After federal cuts to SNAP, Santa Cruz food bank CEO says "we can't lose sight of hope"
- Santa Cruz musician Keshav Batish brings "Sonic Kinship" to Kuumbwa Jazz
- The Carmel Bach Festival's 89th season explores the nature of sound
- New Canon Theatre reimagines "Romeo and Juliet" in the turbulent 1960s
The Latest From NPR
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with business owner Christian Llamas of the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles about the fallout from a refrigerated warehouse fire in June.
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Bavarians traditionally wash down a breakfast of boiled veal sausage, sweet mustard and a giant pretzel with beer — all before the church bells ring at midday.
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President Trump is confronting a question that has haunted presidents throughout history: how a war - that has gone on longer than predicted - can reshape a presidency. -
The number of abortions is up in the United States. Is it because fewer people are using birth control pills? -
A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon. -
Meanwhile, Iran has made new demands about the restart of negotiations and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons. -
It will be visible in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday. -
President Trump's deployment of the National Guard will hit the one year mark next week. The presence of armed, uniformed troops on the street has become increasingly normalized in the capital.
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Matt Rutherford is sailing 10,000 nautical miles, through ice floes and gales, to try and accomplish a world first. He spoke with NPR from the cabin of his boat. -
An agreement over the Strait of Hormuz is still far away. Tim Wilkins, who works for a tanker industry group, says the ships stuck around the waterway are in limbo, and transiting is still dangerous.
