Major League Baseball’s opening day is here and what better way to honor the day than to remember a famous baseball player and his time on the Central Coast. We are talking about Joe DiMaggio.With the ...

Fifty-five years have come and gone. In the spring of 1964, I was a 19-year-old basic trainee at the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Ord. I’d embarked upon a personal mission and was convinced that ...

Fort Ord, where Williams was sent for basic training in 1950-51, was a United States Army post in Monterey, California. Used for military training beginning in 1917, the post became a Fort in 1941 and ...

MARINA – The abandoned, graffiti-covered swimming pool on the former Army base contains a history that many have forgotten. But not for one local who was a swim instructor and lifeguard at that pool – ...

For nearly 80 years, recruits reporting to central California’s Fort Ord considered themselves the lucky ones, privileged to live and work amid sparkling seas, sandy dunes and sage-covered hills. But ...