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Council makes street addresses officially official

June 5 — IN ITS final action to bring about the historic change, the Carmel City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution confirming that the city has implemented an address identification system consistent with the requirements of the California Building Standards Code and adopting the street addressing map ... Read More

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An only-in-Carmel evacuation exercise

June 5 — YOU KNOW you live in a special place when people show up 15 minutes early for an evacuation drill. And when they get irate because they missed the first bus to the “safe zone.” And when they complain that there’s no coffee waiting for them when they get there ... Read More

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More debate over Stonehouse as national historic resource

June 4 — IN THE ongoing murkiness surrounding the nomination of the Stonehouse Terrace complex to the National Register of Historic Places, the Carmel City Council voted 4-1 Monday to return the debate to the city’s historic resources board — which could very well vote the same way it did two months ago ... Read More

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State spends more, gets same dismal grades

June 4 — SCHOOL IS out for the summer, and the hope is that California children came out of their classrooms a little wiser, though results from the federal standardized tests used to measure their performance won’t be released for months. In recent years, those results have been nothing short of dismal ... Read More

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