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The super snow moon rises over the Paradise ridge Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, in Chico, California. The Moon is the closest it will be to Earth in 2019, and appears bigger and brighter than usual. (Dan Reidel — Enterprise-Record)

Photos: Supermoon, aka ‘Snow Moon’, ‘Crow Moon’ , ‘Lenten Moon’ or ‘Worm Moon’

February 19, 2019 at 10:16 a.m.

The Supermoon came out Monday and Tuesday for the year, shining its brightest and biggest. Depending on traditions, names for the moon include “Crow Moon,” “Lenten Moon,” “Snow Moon” and...

At the Oak Street site where the Oakland Museum of California now stands, Californians of Japanese ancestry empty their homes in anticipation of being transported to internment camps in this 1942 photograph by Dorothea Lange. - Oakland Museum of California

Monterey County issues formal apology to Japanese American community for internment

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

SALINAS >> Shortly after the Empire of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Gary Tanimura’s family was among the more than 3,500 Japanese and Japanese Americans living...

A historical photo of the Western Flyer being launched for the first time in Tacoma, Washington, which was on display during the Cannery Row Symposium at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey in February 2015. The boat was featured in Steinbeck’s ‘Log from the Sea of Cortez.’ - Petrich Collection

Steinbeck boat being restored

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

Somewhere in the Western Flyer there is a spirit, said Chris Chase, project director for the Western Flyer Foundation, the nonprofit group restoring the fishing boat that carried Ed Ricketts...

Physicist Leonard Tramiel, Ph.D. gives a talk titled ‘Atheism and Skepticism: Are they Related and Why Should We Care’ during SkeptiCamp 2018 at the Seaside Community Center on Saturday. - David Royal — Monterey Herald Correspondent

SkeptiCamp: Voting, witness testimony among topics questioned

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

SEASIDE >> Don’t accept things at face value, and things are not always what they appear to be.That’s one summation of what people took away from the Saturday’s third annual...

Louise Miranda Ramirez, chairwoman of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, leads a final prayer before reburying her ancestors at the Presidio of Monterey Army cemetery on Sunday. - Claudia Melendez — Monterey Herald

Remains of 17 Native American reburied in Presidio of Monterey Army cemetery

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

MONTEREY >> At nearly 1 p.m. on Sunday, about 60 people began gathering near the cemetery at the Presidio of Monterey for a unique ceremony. The remains of 17 Native...

Caution tape surrounds a Native American archaeological site that has been exposed due to winter storms at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. - photos by David Royal — Monterey Herald

Lovers Point archaeological site unearthed, to be re-covered

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

PACIFIC GROVE >> An archaeological site first discovered in the 1930s at Lovers Point and recently exposed to the elements by the fierce winter storms that hit the Peninsula, is...

Cesar Blakeney, left, is embraced by Brother Robert Libardo and Brother George Espinosa during a gathering for Pastor Herbert Valero at Victory Outreach Church in Salinas on Wednesday March 15. Valero was stabbed in the neck outside of his home after a going out to pray with a parishioner on Tuesday evening. - David Royal — Monterey Herald

Monterey County clergymen remain committed to helping at-risk populations

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

SALINAS >> Dozens of victims of violence gather for a remembrance every year around Christmas. It is a time when the absence of loved ones hurts most. Grieving mothers and...

The third and final span of the condemned Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge came down Wednesday. - Caltrans

Final span of Highway 1 bridge comes down

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

BIG SUR >> Nine days after the demolition began, crews brought down the final span of the condemned Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Wednesday afternoon.Contractors and Caltrans engineers used a hoe...

The front entrance to Fort Ord at Lighfighter Drive in 1976. - Archival photo

Well known sign to be demolished

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

SEASIDE >> The sign that once marked the main gateway into Ford Ord on Lightfighter Drive just off Highway 1 in Seaside, is being demolished after an $87,000 contract was...

Release of school test scores pushed to September

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

MONTEREY >> Top California education officials have ruled out public release of school test results in August, and now are looking at September as the earliest date.“We’re still contemplating the...

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