Chualar News

By MARIA INES ZAMUDIO and TIA GHOSE * mzamudio@thecalifornian.com and tghose@thecalifornian.com * November 3, 2009 Former Alisal district employee beating veteran board member A 14-year veteran of the Alisal Union School District and a former district employee are ahead in elections to two seats on the board, according to early numbers released by ...

Erica Padilla Chavez was poised to unseat two-time incumbent Juan Martinez in the race for the Hartnell College Trustee Area 6 position representing Chualar, Gonzales and Soledad, early poll results showed Tuesday night.

Early results from the Nov. 3 election in Monterey County were mostly good news for incumbents while some school board and fire districts were set to see some new faces.

The following birth announcements were published in the Oct. 31 Californian. Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Salinas The following babies were born at SVMH: i SEPT.

Child molester James Lamb won't be going to live with his mother in Phoenix quite yet.

A man who admitted to molesting more than 50 boys is looking to move to Arizona, even though he is months away from completing a year of supervised monitoring.

Salinas police said a man was shot several times about 8p.m. Thursday in front of a house at Alma Avenue and Beech Street.

A Salinas Valley farmworker was killed and six other people were sent to hospitals Wednesday when a truck smashed head-on into a car on Alisal Road outside Salinas.

Chula Vina Vineyard in Chualar Canyon has been honored with a Sustainability in Practice Certification.

Synopsis: R/P WANTED TO REPORT THAT THINGS WERE BEING MOVED IN HER GARAGE, AND ODD FONTS WERE APPEARING ON HER COMPUTER.

Horacio Amezquita, resident general manager at San Jerardo Cooperative, talks about the water filtration system that serves residents of the farmworker community near Chualar.

The following birth announcements were printed in the Aug. 29th Salinas Californian: Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Salinas The following babies were born at SVMH: i JUNE 24, 2009 KATIE CLAIRE WYATT, daughter of Ty and Aprilynn Wyatt of Hollister.

The Community Foundation for Monterey County has announced the recipients of its 2009 Neighborhood Grants.

I bring a unique viewpoint to the problems with immigrants and gangs. I was there! My dad was Louis Braun, manager of the county Farm Labor Office.

Luis Valdez, El Theatro Campesino founder and CSU-Monterey Bay professor of Teledramatic and Technological Arts, speaks during closing ceremonies of the Junior Otter Program for migrant students on Friday.

Luis Valdez, El Theatro Campesino founder and CSU-Monterey Bay professor of Teledramatic and Technological Arts, speaks during closing ceremonies of the Junior Otter Program for migrant students on Friday.

Monterey County schools have lost $72 million in state funding since the 2008-09 school year, according to the Monterey County Office of Education.

The Santa Rita Union School District has offered a tentative job offer to Mike Brusa to become the district's superintendent, Brusa said today.

A high-speed chase ended in Salinas this morning with the arrests of two men suspected of robbing a Chualar grocery store at gunpoint, sheriff's officials said.

SALINAS, Calif- Two suspects have been aprehended after robbing a market in Chualar Friday morning.