#montereycounty — Public Fediverse posts

Taco Bell met with Michigan on cyclospora parasite weeks before recall – East Bay Times https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2886/ #agriculture #BayArea #Business #California #CaliforniaNews #environment #food #Health #HealthCare #LatestHeadlines #michigan #MichiganDining #MichiganFood #MichiganGroceryStores #MichiganRestaurants #MontereyCounty #MorningWire #NationalNews #News #PublicSafety #Retail #SouthBay

Taco Bell met with Michigan on cyclospora parasite weeks before recall – East Bay Times https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2886/ #agriculture #BayArea #Business #California #CaliforniaNews #environment #food #Health #HealthCare #LatestHeadlines #michigan #MichiganDining #MichiganFood #MichiganGroceryStores #MichiganRestaurants #MontereyCounty #MorningWire #NationalNews #News #PublicSafety #Retail #SouthBay

Taco Bell met with Michigan on cyclospora parasite weeks before recall – East Bay Times https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2886/ #agriculture #BayArea #Business #California #CaliforniaNews #environment #food #Health #HealthCare #LatestHeadlines #michigan #MichiganDining #MichiganFood #MichiganGroceryStores #MichiganRestaurants #MontereyCounty #MorningWire #NationalNews #News #PublicSafety #Retail #SouthBay

Taco Bell met with Michigan on cyclospora parasite weeks before recall – East Bay Times https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2886/ #agriculture #BayArea #Business #California #CaliforniaNews #environment #food #Health #HealthCare #LatestHeadlines #michigan #MichiganDining #MichiganFood #MichiganGroceryStores #MichiganRestaurants #MontereyCounty #MorningWire #NationalNews #News #PublicSafety #Retail #SouthBay

#CaliforniaStateParks
You are invited to see artwork by Monterey Bay Plein Air painters who documented the land and historic changes happening at the new Fort Ord Dunes State Parks during the past couple years. Reception: September 18, 2026. 6-7:30.

Carmel Valley artist and bike commuter Paola Berthouin has 8 works in the show. Exhibit runs Sept 7-Nov 5, 2026.

Also: Sept 19-20 is Studio Tour. Paola will be showing and selling her work, 11-5 both days. Many new pieces to share, including her new book:
RisingLeaf Sanctuary, The Land Tending Way.
https://www.paolafiorelleberthoin.com/

#MontereyCounty #FortOrd #artist #painter #BikeCommuter #ArtGallery #NewBook #author

#CaliforniaStateParks
You are invited to see artwork by Monterey Bay Plein Air painters who documented the land and historic changes happening at the new Fort Ord Dunes State Parks during the past couple years. Reception: September 18, 2026. 6-7:30.

Carmel Valley artist and bike commuter Paola Berthouin has 8 works in the show. Exhibit runs Sept 7-Nov 5, 2026.

Also: Sept 19-20 is Studio Tour. Paola will be showing and selling her work, 11-5 both days. Many new pieces to share, including her new book:
RisingLeaf Sanctuary, The Land Tending Way.
https://www.paolafiorelleberthoin.com/

#MontereyCounty #FortOrd #artist #painter #BikeCommuter #ArtGallery #NewBook #author

#CaliforniaStateParks
You are invited to see artwork by Monterey Bay Plein Air painters who documented the land and historic changes happening at the new Fort Ord Dunes State Parks during the past couple years. Reception: September 18, 2026. 6-7:30.

Carmel Valley artist and bike commuter Paola Berthouin has 8 works in the show. Exhibit runs Sept 7-Nov 5, 2026.

Also: Sept 19-20 is Studio Tour. Paola will be showing and selling her work, 11-5 both days. Many new pieces to share, including her new book:
RisingLeaf Sanctuary, The Land Tending Way.
https://www.paolafiorelleberthoin.com/

#MontereyCounty #FortOrd #artist #painter #BikeCommuter #ArtGallery #NewBook #author

#CaliforniaStateParks
You are invited to see artwork by Monterey Bay Plein Air painters who documented the land and historic changes happening at the new Fort Ord Dunes State Parks during the past couple years. Reception: September 18, 2026. 6-7:30.

Carmel Valley artist and bike commuter Paola Berthouin has 8 works in the show. Exhibit runs Sept 7-Nov 5, 2026.

Also: Sept 19-20 is Studio Tour. Paola will be showing and selling her work, 11-5 both days. Many new pieces to share, including her new book:
RisingLeaf Sanctuary, The Land Tending Way.
https://www.paolafiorelleberthoin.com/

#MontereyCounty #FortOrd #artist #painter #BikeCommuter #ArtGallery #NewBook #author

#CaliforniaStateParks
You are invited to see artwork by Monterey Bay Plein Air painters who documented the land and historic changes happening at the new Fort Ord Dunes State Parks during the past couple years. Reception: September 18, 2026. 6-7:30.

Carmel Valley artist and bike commuter Paola Berthouin has 8 works in the show. Exhibit runs Sept 7-Nov 5, 2026.

Also: Sept 19-20 is Studio Tour. Paola will be showing and selling her work, 11-5 both days. Many new pieces to share, including her new book:
RisingLeaf Sanctuary, The Land Tending Way.
https://www.paolafiorelleberthoin.com/

#MontereyCounty #FortOrd #artist #painter #BikeCommuter #ArtGallery #NewBook #author

Amber Alert is issued for girl, 14, and fugitive father after baby found dead

The search for a father and his 14-year-old daughter following last month’s discovery of a dead infant in…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #14-year-olddaughter #AmberAlert #authority #baby #child #det #fugitivefather #girl #montereycounty #newsrelease #office #perez #road #teen #UnitedStates #Us #USA #victim
https://www.newsbeep.com/722388/

Eight new #gas and #OilWells have been approved for San Ardo.

“These enhanced# oil recovery methods come with all the risks of traditional production,” says Cooper Kass, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, a watchdog organization which has filed multiple lawsuits regarding California’s oil and gas industry. “They also bring a number of additional risks, including the potential for the high-pressure injection to damage the wellbore and/or crack the surrounding rock, which could lead to migration and #groundwater contamination.”—Report by Katie Rodriguez, #MontereyCountyNow

#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #SalinasValley #MontereyCounty #SanArdo #AeraEnergy #BigOil #ExxonMobil #Shell https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/eight-new-gas-and-oil-wells-have-been-approved-for-san-ardo/article_1ec8a978-68de-481d-b262-535169e8f93b.html#tncms-source=mosaic

The Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST) FREE #Monterey Trolley service for summer 2026 will begin on Saturday, May 23, and will operate daily from 10 AM to 6 PM through Labor Day, Monday, September 7. https://bikemonterey.org/monterey-salinas-transits-summer-trolley-service.html Tips for taking bicycle aboard trolley or any large or small MST bus— with the exception of MST’s ADA Paratransit (RIDES) buses: https://bikemonterey.org/monterey-salinas-transit-tips-for-people-who-bike.html

Among other service changes announced 5/19/26 https://mst.org/news_items/monterey-salinas-transit-mst-service-changes-go-into-effect-beginning-saturday-may-23rd/:
"Line 84 (King City – Paso Robles): Major schedule updates will improve connections to San Luis Obispo RTA Route 9 in Paso Robles. All southbound Line 23 (King City) trips will continue to Paso Robles without requiring a transfer. Service to Bradley will also be restored.”

#MontereySalinasTransit #MontereyCounty #PublicTransit #PublicTransportation #ActOnClimate #bus #trolley

Williams Hill in the mist this morning.

#WilliamsHill #LockwoodCA #MontereyCounty #CaliforniaLandscape #CentralCoast #FoggyMorning #ValleyFog #NaturePhotography #RollingHills #CaliforniaCentralCoast #LandscapePhotography

"About 12 percent of Monterey County’s oil and gas wells are located within 200 feet of a river or creek. This includes the Salinas River, which runs through the San Ardo oil field, and is a critical source of the county’s groundwater.

"In December 2025, over 4,000 gallons of oil and toxic wastewater spilled in the San Ardo oil field, just over a mile from where the Sargent Creek feeds the Salinas River. It is unconfirmed whether that spill was connected to an active or idle well.”
—Katie Rodriguez, #MontereyCountyNow
#BigOil #Chevron #AeraEnergy #CaliforniaResourcesCorporation #MontereyCounty #Water #Air #CenterForBiologicalDiversity #AirQuality #WaterQuality #Groundwater #Oil #DesertedOilWells #SalinasValley #SanArdo

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/hundreds-of-unplugged-oil-wells-sit-on-top-of-groundwater-sources-in-monterey-county-a/article_d333e7d2-3a6a-49e1-ac63-b452049ca8ee.html

"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

Monterey County students, including at North Monterey County High School and Salinas High School, protest ICE and immigration policies. — Report by Felix Cortez, #KSBW. https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-county-students-protest-ice-immigration/70206726

#MontereyCounty #Salinas #Monterey #immigrants #SalinasValley #PajaroValley #ICE #NationalProtests #NationalStrike

"Central Coast joins nationwide shutdown 'ICE Out' calling for action against ICE” - Report by Ricardo Tovar for #KSBW

https://www.ksbw.com/article/central-coast-joins-nationwide-shutdown-ice-out/70195011

#Salinas #MontereyCounty #SantaCruzCounty

https://nationalshutdown.org/actions

#NationalStrike #NationalShutdown #AlexPretti #ReneeGood

Ariana Green, Principal Transportation Planner, and Alissa Guther,
Transportation Planner, of Transportation Agency for #MontereyCounty, attended the 2025 National Association of City Transportation Officials
(#NACTO) Designing Cities Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference provided an
opportunity to connect with fellow #ActiveTransportation, #PublicHealth, and #SafeRoutes
champions from across the country and share best practices. Sessions attended
and key takeaways: (see pages 46-48 https://www.tamcmonterey.org/files/ba21450c9/Agenda+Packet+-+2025-08-22T103550.309.pdf).

#FortOrd #MontereyCounty

"The Army’s Direct Notification Program is a free service to the community to provide notification for our prescribed burns. You must register for this service every year you wish to be notified….The burn season starts July 1st and ends December 31st (unless extended by permission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).”
#PrescribedBurns #AirPollution

https://fortordcleanup.com/prescribed-burns/notification/

March 10, 6 pm meetings in the Salinas Valley:
*San Ardo - Active Transportation listening session, Spanish interpretation available.
*Gonzales - Vista Lucia Specific Plan public hearing.
Details in Winter Bike Buzz: https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-winter-2025.html

#MontereyCounty #SalinasValley #Gonzales #SanArdo #ActiveTransport #transportation #PublicHealth

Driving the California central coastal range. #bigsur #lospadresnationalforest #californiacentralcoast #montereycounty

Between August-December 2020 the Dolan Fire burned 120,000 acres in the Big Sur area of California’s Central Coast. Here’s a visual ‘before and after’ of the summit of Nacimiento-Fergusson Road where it meets South Coast Ridge Road. It is shocking, there are basically no trees left (this is obviously only a tiny fraction of total damage). #nacimientofergussonroad #bigsur #dolanfire #lospadresnationalforest #beforeandafter #wildfires #arson #californiacentralcoast #montereycounty #fourwheeltravel

Nacimiento-Fergusson Road reopened after 4 years and $12M in repairs. We drive it, and camp at Kirk Creek Campground at Big Sur.

Off The Beaten Track episode 18, on our YouTube.

https://youtu.be/sEWfw4MBIsA

#lospadresnationalforest #bigsur #kirkcreekcampground #nacimientofergusson #californiacentralcoast #montereycounty #offthebeatentrack #fourwheeltravel

Carol and Jaime live in San Jose, California where they are active members of Silicon Valley Rotary. We met them while walking the trails at a Asilomar State Beach today. Jaime, a California resident for over 30 years, is a native of Colombia. 🇨🇴 They met through their shared dedication to service to others, via Rotary.
#PeopleWhoBike #cyclists #bicyclists #MontereyCounty #PacificGrove #SanJose #SiliconValleyRotary #Rotarians

🎂Happy birthday to Liz, biking 30 miles to celebrate their 30th birthday today! 3️⃣0️⃣🎉🎈Liz and their friend Lizzy had biked from Marina, California to another #Monterey Peninsula city, #Pacific Grove, when we met them while we were walking at Asilomar State Beach. We🎵sang Liz a favorite birthday song traditional in many #Waldorf schools.
#PeopleWhoBike #cyclists #bicyclists #MontereyCounty #California #MontereyBay #BikeMontereyCounty #BikeMonterey #PacificGrove #Marina #Birthdays #BirthdayBikeRide

In August we gave a short in-person presentation on “ABC Quick Check.” In the process we showed attendees our portable pump and the pump we use at home, a Park floor pump. When we commented that you don’t always have to have an ample budget to get quality tools—that we’d bought our Park pump used at a Goodwill store—some asked which Goodwill. It was this one, on West Broadway in the Monterey County city of Seaside. While biking last Sunday, when we paused out front of that store, there was another person who bikes apparently scouting their inventory. :)

BTW, Seaside’s West Broadway is tops in the county for number of conveniently located bike racks and also public benches. (See “Rest Stops” for why that matters. https://bikemonterey.org/rest-stops-people-who-bike-walk-or-otherwise-get-about-sometimes-just-need-to-sit-a-spell.html)

#BikeTooter #thrift #reuse #ParkTools #BikePump #BicyclePump #TirePump #RestStop #ActiveTransportation #BikeParking #BicycleParking #Goodwill #Seaside #MontereyCounty

Friday is farmers market day at Del Monte Center, Monterey. Don’t know who rode this bike to DMC today, just appreciate that they did. Related tips in “Bike to Farmers Markets” https://bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tourists/food-for-all and in “Shopping by Bike”: https://bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tourists/unique-attractions

DMC is in city of Monterey. The city’s bike-aware leaders, e.g., Mayor Tyller Williamson and Council Member Gino Garcia (whose day job is working for Ecology Action of Santa Cruz / Lets Modo) may be unaware that we formerly had in that Shopping section of the Tips guide a detailed map listing all Del Monte Center bike rack locations. Their ED at that time himself biked to work! Why is that detailed map no longer in our guide? Because DMC 🔥REMOVED those bike racks! 😭#NotProgress #GoingBackward #CarbonEmissions #TrafficCongestion #Monterey #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #transportation

#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #BikeMonterey #BicyclingMonterey #ShopByBike #BikeToShop #ShoppingCenters #ParkingLots #ebike #DelMonteCenter #DelMonteShoppingCenter

Offshore wind companies may want to reduce marine sanctuary off California’s Central Coast

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article281367213.html

#news #windEnergy #california #SanLuisObispoCounty #MontereyCounty #CaliforniaCentralCoast #greenenergy #indigenous #native #ChumashHeritageNationalMarineSanctuary

#AtmosphericRiver #California #MontereyCounty Evacuation ORDER for #SanArdo*

The Monterey County Sheriff's Office has issued an Evacuation Order for residents of San Ardo and the Salinas River due to flooding effective immediately and until further notice.