Soledad Bee

Seats shifted during Soledad City Council’s Dec. 2 meeting, in which outgoing Mayor Fred Ledesma called the meeting to order one last time while Anna Velazquez was sworn in as the city’s first female mayor.

STAY-AT-HOME ORDER: Monterey County is enacting the state’s latest health restrictions early to help reduce the spread of Covid-19 and patient overflow at area hospitals after monitoring local and regional intensive care unit (ICU) capacity.

Monterey County has been tracking data about economic impacts, including the loss of more than 47,000 jobs countywide this year, according to a November report by the county’s Workforce Development Board.

Free pop-up Covid-19 testing sites have been emerging lately in South Monterey County as part of an effort to increase testing access after a new site was added to Castroville to the existing lineup of Salinas and Seaside.

Monterey County Free Libraries is providing Wi-Fi hotspots to youth who need internet access.