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WATSONVILLE—As the steeple bells of St. Patrick's Cathedral struck 10 Monday morning, a group of former military members began a march from the church's parking lot to the Watsonville Veterans Memorial Building, a tradition that heralds in the annual Veteran's Day ceremony.
Dozens of people lined the streets to pay their respect to the two-dozen marchers, waving miniature U.S. flags and applauding as they passed.
SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz fulfilled a longtime ambition this week as it joined an exclusive club of powerhouse research universities.
The Santa Cruz campus was among three universities invited to join the Association of American Universities, the association announced Wednesday. Dartmouth College and the University of Utah also accepted invitations to join.
MONTEREY – A federal grant totaling more than $1.6 million was awarded to Monterey County for reimbursement of Palo Colorado road repairs caused by severe winter storms that took place in February 2017.
Representative Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, who helped get the funds, announced that the United States Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded the grant totaling $1,663,670.25 to pay back the county for its work.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said the agency is struggling with the same shortage of cancer treatment experts that the U.S. medical community at large has faced, which veterans told McClatchy has resulted in missed or late-stage cancer diagnoses.
McClatchy last month reported in an exclusive investigation that the rate of urinary, prostate, liver and blood cancer treatments has sharply risen over the last two decades of war.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) introduced legislation to direct research into the correlation between radiation exposure and prostate cancer in veterans.
Desde que Oswaldo llegó de México hace 17 años ha trabajado en los campos de California. "Sería maravilloso si pudiera tener un permiso para trabajar; y más tarde, la residencia. Podría andar más tranquilo sin tanta angustia", dice este trabajador agrícola del Valle de Salinas en el norte del estado.
Five California Congress members, including Zoe Lofgren (District 19) and Jimmy Panetta (District 20) have unveiled a House bill to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented farmworkers.
In an Oct. 30 "tele-press conference," Lofgren and Panetta said their Farm Workforce Modernization Act would provide a path to legal status for nearly 250,000 California farmworkers provided they can demonstrate they have worked in agriculture in the past, will continue to work in agriculture in the future, and meet other requirements.
SALINAS, Calif. - Signs displaying the names of our nation's heroes will soon be placed on highways around Monterey County. They were unveiled Thursday night at an event in Salinas to memorialize five fallen men from Monterey County. All five were killed in combat in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2014.
- U.S. Army Ranger Ricardo Cerros, Jr. of Salinas
- Army Specialist Vilmar Galarza of Salinas
- U.S. Army Sargent Javier Sanchez, Jr. of Greenfield
- Army Chief Warrant Officer Edward Balli of Salinas
In the nighttime hours of Jan. 20, 2014, insurgents used a car bomb to break through the wall at a Kandahar, Afghanistan, outpost where Salinas native and U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Edward Balli, 42, was stationed.
Six insurgents rushed in and opened fire with AK-47 rifles. Balli and a sergeant returned fire while civilians and others rushed for shelter.
With support from the California Farm Bureau Federation and many other agricultural groups around the state and nation, members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that seeks to ensure a stable and legal workforce for farms, ranches and other agricultural producers.