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  1. "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.

    #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.”

    montereyherald.com/2026/04/17/

  2. "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.

    #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.”

    montereyherald.com/2026/04/17/

  3. "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.

    #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.”

    montereyherald.com/2026/04/17/

  4. "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.

    #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.”

    montereyherald.com/2026/04/17/

  5. "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.

    #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.”

    montereyherald.com/2026/04/17/

  6. @ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8
    We’ve been doing more rural rides than biking into town lately. But current weather’s heat wave + steep hills of our rural routes led us to opt for biking into town yesterday instead, so we could cool off on the coastal trail. We’ll be biking to this spot (Window on the Bay Park in city of Monterey) on March 28 for next local No Kings Day.

    #NoKings #NoKingsMonterey #Monterey #biking #cycling #MontereyBay

  7. Well, that was a first: Bumped into by a guy who was walking on the beach while looking down at and completely absorbed by his phone. No harm done.

    And certainly took nothing away from our pleasure of walking the beach on this warm evening.

    #pedestrians #CellPhones #MontereyBay #Beach #Beach #Sunset

  8. " The city [of [Santa Cruz] hopes to have 30% of its population commuting by bike by 2035 and plans to incorporate e-bikes into this vision, but wants safety measures in place first.

    O"ne proposed initiative is a school permit pilot program that would require students to complete a safety course to park their bikes on campus. The city's principal transportation planner, Claire Gallogly, said, 'It's going to involve in-person education for our middle school students, as well as on-bike training, in order to get a parking permit sticker to be able to ride an e-bike and park on campus.’”

    —Report by Michael Rosales, KSBW
    #MontereyBay #SantaCruz #BikeCommuting #cycling #biking #ebikes #YouthEducation #transportation #BikeToSchool #MoreKidsOnBikes #TrafficSafety #RoadSafety ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-ci

  9. "Flagstaff, Ariz., Cambridge, Mass., Eugene, Ore. and Santa Cruz, Calif., are among a list of at least 30 localities that have either deactivated their Flock cameras or canceled their contracts since the beginning of 2025 – with much of the activity happening in just the last three months….Flock's #AI-powered cameras scan license plates as well as vehicles' identifying details….Santa Cruz was among a number of California cities that learned their local data had been shared with Flock's national network without city officials' knowledge or intent. It was alarming to some officials given that state laws forbid cities from sharing license plate data with federal or out-of-state agencies, or assisting federal immigration enforcement.” Report by Jude Joffe-Block for @npr
    #NationalPublicRadio npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-56128

    #immigration #surveillance #LicensePlateReaders #MontereyBay #SantaCruz

  10. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  11. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  12. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  13. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  14. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  15. 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  16. 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  17. 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  18. 🐙🩺 How do you perform a medical checkup on a creature that's strong, slimy, and smart enough to solve puzzles?

    Animal caregivers like René Carbajal at the #MontereyBay #Aquarium rely on target training to provide stress-free enrichment and health checks for Chica the Giant Pacific Octopus.

    👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/c

    #animals #nature #wildlife #cephalopods #marinebiology #biology #tksst #video

  19. In memory of #AlexPretti and in unity with Minnesotans who bike, #cycling communities around the USA* will “RIDE TOGETHER, STAND TOGETHER" Jan 31, 2026. [*Update: Also in Canada and elsewhere; flyer template available at bikepacking.com/news/alex-pret ]

    In Monterey County, AMG Cyclery of Seaside, California invites you to join them Jan 31 for a casual-pace ride from their bike shop, 805 Broadway Ave, Seaside to Lovers Point, Pacific Grove and back (10 mi round trip). Meet up 1:30. Ride begins 2pm sharp.

    "There is nothing more dangerous to a regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth."

    From Angry Catfish Bicycle Shop of Minneapolis angrycatfishbicycle.com/articl
    "Alex was one of us, could’ve been any of us, so as we mourn, all of us can come together in unity to remember Alex for what he was. A kind and caring soul put on this earth to be the light for others."

    General tips for group social rides: bikemonterey.org/rideout-or-ru

    #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #MontereyBay

  20. "Protesters in Seaside demand change after deadly ICE Minnesota shooting.

    "I’ve talked to business owners, I've talked to people who are employed here who don't want to leave the house because they are concerned that such a thing could happen here.”

    ksbw.com/article/protester-sea

    #KSBW #MontereyCounty #MontereyBay #Minnesota

  21. #LiveMusic #MontereyBay

    Jan 15, 7-10 pm at Pop & Hiss in Pacific Grove. Prefer outdoor seating? Though technically indoors, it’s the back room with the big garage door opening to the patio off Grant St. There’s bar seating right in the doorway, or benches on the patio where you can see the stage through the window.

    Also, Dan and Laurel will be at Abbott Square, Santa Cruz on Jan 31 with their band — unless it rains.

    danandlaurel.ca/Tour/

  22. We did two nice road bike rides over the weekend, one on Saturday toward the northern end of the Monterey Bay and the second on Sunday at the southern end. I’m always amazed on a clear day when one can see across the bay how big it is. These photo’s don’t capture what it’s like to see.

    It’s apparently one of the largest bays in the world. About 25 miles across and around 60 miles around by car. One source said 90 miles which may be measured along the shoreline with the zig zag small coves and points along the way.

    Left photo: Looking south east across the Monterey Bay toward Monterey and Pacific Grove from New Brighton State Beach on the northern end of the bay.

    Left photo: Looking north west across the Monterey Bay toward Santa Cruz from Monterey on the southern end of the bay.

    #Photography #Ocean #MontereyBay #Cycling #BikeRiding #RoadBike

  23. #MontereyCounty

    Wed, 1/14/26 beginning at 6 pm - participate online or in person. Public welcome.

    Agenda and packet now available for Jan 14, 2026 meeting of #Transportation Agency for #Monterey County (TAMC) #Bicycle and #Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) .tamcmonterey.org/files/450716c.

    Presentations to include an update on:
    -County of Monterey's Chualar Sidewalk Project
    -Harden Parkway and Safe Routes to School Project

    #Salinas #Chualar #ActiveTransport
    #MontereyBay
    #SalinasValley
    #SafeRoutesToSchool

    bikemonterey.org/monthly-meeti

  24. #MontereyCounty

    Wed, 1/14/26 beginning at 6 pm - participate online or in person. Public welcome.

    Agenda and packet now available for Jan 14, 2026 meeting of #Transportation Agency for #Monterey County (TAMC) #Bicycle and #Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) .tamcmonterey.org/files/450716c.

    Presentations to include an update on:
    -County of Monterey's Chualar Sidewalk Project
    -Harden Parkway and Safe Routes to School Project

    #Salinas #Chualar #ActiveTransport
    #MontereyBay
    #SalinasValley
    #SafeRoutesToSchool

    bikemonterey.org/monthly-meeti

  25. #MontereyCounty

    Wed, 1/14/26 beginning at 6 pm - participate online or in person. Public welcome.

    Agenda and packet now available for Jan 14, 2026 meeting of #Transportation Agency for #Monterey County (TAMC) #Bicycle and #Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) .tamcmonterey.org/files/450716c.

    Presentations to include an update on:
    -County of Monterey's Chualar Sidewalk Project
    -Harden Parkway and Safe Routes to School Project

    #Salinas #Chualar #ActiveTransport
    #MontereyBay
    #SalinasValley
    #SafeRoutesToSchool

    bikemonterey.org/monthly-meeti

  26. #MontereyCounty

    Wed, 1/14/26 beginning at 6 pm - participate online or in person. Public welcome.

    Agenda and packet now available for Jan 14, 2026 meeting of #Transportation Agency for #Monterey County (TAMC) #Bicycle and #Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) .tamcmonterey.org/files/450716c.

    Presentations to include an update on:
    -County of Monterey's Chualar Sidewalk Project
    -Harden Parkway and Safe Routes to School Project

    #Salinas #Chualar #ActiveTransport
    #MontereyBay
    #SalinasValley
    #SafeRoutesToSchool

    bikemonterey.org/monthly-meeti

  27. #MontereyCounty

    Wed, 1/14/26 beginning at 6 pm - participate online or in person. Public welcome.

    Agenda and packet now available for Jan 14, 2026 meeting of #Transportation Agency for #Monterey County (TAMC) #Bicycle and #Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) .tamcmonterey.org/files/450716c.

    Presentations to include an update on:
    -County of Monterey's Chualar Sidewalk Project
    -Harden Parkway and Safe Routes to School Project

    #Salinas #Chualar #ActiveTransport
    #MontereyBay
    #SalinasValley
    #SafeRoutesToSchool

    bikemonterey.org/monthly-meeti