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Monterey County foundations raise almost $1.7 million for COVID-19 relief
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Class of 2020, interrupted
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La generación del 2020
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In Search of Steel-Cut Oats in the Time of the Pandemic
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All The World’s A Stage
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Your One-Stop Coronavirus Meme Collection
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Assess your symptoms at home
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The New Normal
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Videos: Información sobre el coronavirus en triqui y mixteco
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Video: Elementary students talk about remote learning
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The long road home from Antarctica
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Video: Distanciamiento social
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Are Monterey Bay Area Hospitals Prepared for a Surge?
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For the incarcerated, fear and loss of family contact as officials struggle to keep virus at bay
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California’s shelter-in-place guidelines
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The Social Distance
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From Overtourism to Ghost Town
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My last paycheck at a Santa Cruz restaurant
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SWAT Team Party Got Out of Hand
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Under the Sheltering Sky
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About Kate Woods Novoa

Since 1985, Kate Woods Novoa has lived in Big Sur, working as a public defender for Monterey County. She started the bigsurkate blog (https://bigsurkate.blog) during the 2008 Basin Complex fire and kept at it when she didn’t intend to.

March 19, 2020

From Overtourism to Ghost Town Big Sur residents hunker down for shelter in place

February 13, 2020

The Ballad of Kit and Rachel In Big Sur, dog lovers do what they can to help strays

January 2, 2020

They look out for us The lonely life on remote towers

November 21, 2019

The Natural Barriers Remote terrain limits potential for traffic improvement in Big Sur

October 3, 2019

The Story of a Redwood Tree Five hundred years of Big Sur history for sale

September 11, 2019

Slice of Life on the South Coast The challenges of simple errands and illegal campfires

August 22, 2019