Sara Rubin

Apr 19, 2024 | montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin

Super Tuesday is coming on March 5, a big day for presidential primaries. Besides the presidential primary—which is a partisan race, meaning you can only cast a vote dependent upon your party registration—California's open primary system means voters in Monterey County have the opportunity to vote in multiple elections from local to county to state to selecting a U.S. senator to take over late Dianne Feinstein's seat. There are multiple ways and opportunities to vote on Tuesday, or before Tuesday.

Apr 19, 2024 | montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin

Dr. Bruce Weaver has spent a lot of chilly nights awake on Chews Ridge in Los Padres National Forest looking at the stars. This is not the actual work of an astronomer – it’s to adjust the sensitive instrumentation every 15 minutes, making sure the telescope is properly centered – but it’s those minutes in between that become hours. “I spent many nights doing nothing, just staring up at the sky, going wow,” he says. Of course, things have changed. Instrument adjustments can be done remotely now.

Apr 19, 2024 | montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin

The same geologic forces that make the Big Sur coastline an attraction – the steep cliffs, the plunging river valleys, the vast ocean to the west – make it a terrible place for a highway. And yet Highway 1 through this dramatic landscape, at the edge of the continent, is a leading attraction for California visitors.

Apr 19, 2024 | montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin

Sunday night, March 31, was quiet in Big Sur. A slip-out on Highway 1 at Rocky Creek Bridge had closed the rural community’s access to the Monterey Peninsula the day before. By Sunday morning, Caltrans engineers determined it was safe to allow convoys to come and go. That meant stranded tourists had a way to get home, no rescue helicopters required. It meant Big Sur residents could get to town to get groceries and fuel, to drop off trash, see a doctor.

Apr 19, 2024 | montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin

When Richard Smith was a senior at Cal Poly in 2006, he had a plan. After graduating with a degree in exercise science, he’d go to grad school to become a physical therapist. Meanwhile, he coached and trained on the side. His curiosity about sports drinks took a turn for the real on the kitchen table his senior year, when a professor encouraged him to try making his own.