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Incinerators to burn up Sierra’s dead trees
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U.S. OPEN
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Sports >> B1
San Jose officer was living out his dreams
State >> A2
Dustin Johnson takes home first major
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LEBRON’S YEAR NBA FINALS
Cavs are champs: Cleveland celebrates first major sports title Warriors stunned: Air goes out on team’s spectacular season
There, at the end, Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala just froze in place, like they were stuck in a moment that should’ve never happened. That seemed to be occurring Tim Kawakami in an impossible dimension with an unimaginable conclusion. Until right then, until this Warriors dream season was over, frittered away, failed, and then fading to black. The buzzer for Game 7 sounded, the Warriors lost 93-89, Oracle Arena went silent except for the exclamations of the Cavaliers, and Curry and Iguodala just stood there as most of their teammates filed off the court and back into the locker room. They waited. They witnessed. Eventually, they congratulated the Cavaliers players and coaches they could. It was over — the Warriors’ 73-victory regular season, the playoff journey, the 3-1 lead in this Finals series, this operatic game. And somebody else was triumphant, somebody else played better, coached better, played harder, and deserved it. Somebody who was not the Warriors, who became the first team in Finals history to lose after taking a 3-1 lead. “Yeah, it stung,” Curry said later of those minutes watching LeBron James & Co. scream and hug. “It sucked to watch them celebrate, and we wish that would have been us. “But at the end of the day, you congratulate them for accomplishing what they set out to do, and it will be a good image for us over the summer and all next season to remember so that we can come back stronger.” The Warriors, though, were supposed to be the strongest team in the league and maybe one of the strongest teams in NBA history. They were supposed to back up last season’s chamOAKLAND >>
LEBRON >> PAGE 4
CARMEL >> Children in strollers, dogs on leashes and runners in brightly colored shoes took to the streets of Carmel on Sunday for the Big Sur Interna-
CONGRESS
Farr to introduce pot research bill Goal is to streamline approval, security measures
By Tommy Wright [email protected] @wrightscribe on Twitter
D-Carmel, plans on introducing a bipartisan, bicameral bill this week that would make it easier for researchers to study marijuana. “This bill is about helping people,” Farr said in a press release. “As more states pass their own medical marijuana laws, it’s time for Congress to reexamine federal policy. This bill does just that by supporting research so policy decisions about the role of medical marijuana are based on science and facts instead of rhetoric.” Farr will introduce the bill with Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, and Rep. H. Morgan Griffith, R-Va. A similar bill will be introduced in the Senate by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Sen. Orrin Hatch, RUtah, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. “As a physician who has conducted (National Institutes of Health) sponsored research, I can’t stress enough how critical this legislation is to the scientific community,” said Harris, a former Johns Hopkins Hospital physician, in a prepared statement. “Our drug policy was never intended to act as an impediment to conducting legitimate medical research. We need empirical scientific evidence to clearly determine whether marijuana has meFARR >> PAGE 4
WATER MANAGEMENT
ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, center, celebrates after winning Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday in Oakland. The Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors 93-89.
Should state limit small water agencies? Senate bill would make it more difficult to add to the state’s 7,500-plus systems
TONY DEJAK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cleveland Cavaliers fans Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Cleveland Cavaliers fans hold up celebrate after the team’s victory Curry answers questions during a signs after Game 7on Sunday in on Sunday in Cleveland. post-game press conference. Cleveland.
Kids, adults, dogs race through Carmel By Tom Leyde [email protected]
montereyherald.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. >> Rep. Sam Farr,
RUN IN THE NAME OF LOVE
Participants in annual event pay tribute to loved ones
PAGE B8
tional Marathon’s annual Run in the Name of Love. About 800 people registered for the fundraiser, which featured a 5K run and a 2K walk. Proceeds benefit the marathon’s Youth Fitness Program. Entrants represented 15 states and the countries of Canada and Australia, said Sally Smith, event registrant. Participants could run or walk to pay tribute to a loved one. Bibs read, “I am running
in the name of …” Friends, sons, daughters, parents, grandparents, mothers- and fathers-in-law were named on participants’ bibs. Karen and Richard Johnson of Monterey honored their daughter, Claudia, who died in February. “This is our special day. We’re running in honor of our daughter,” Karen Johnson said. The two were joined by Richard’s son and their golden MARATHON >> PAGE 4
Adam Roach, center, who won April’s Big Sur International Marathon, leads the start of Sunday’s 5K Run in the Name of Love in Carmel. Roach won in 15:57.
By Paul Rogers [email protected]
California’s drought has revealed that when it comes to water, not every community is equal. Large urban areas, from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, asked residents to conserve, raised rates to buy water from other places and generally have gotten by without much inconvenience, other than brown lawns and shorter showers. But communities served by smaller systems, from farm towns to forest hamlets — often lacking money, expertise and modern equipment — have struggled and, in some cases, nearly run out of water entirely. Now, a bill by a Bay Area state lawmaker aims to slow the spread of little “mom and pop” water providers by making it very difficult to create new ones. The problem, says state Sen. WATER >> PAGE 4
POLITICS
FLASHBACK
OBITUARY
WEATHER
Trump stuck on GOP’s California dream
Pinball wizardry in the good old days
‘Star Trek’ actor Anton Yelchin killed by own car
Heat is here for parts of Northern California
Trump’s claim that he will win election’s biggest electoral prize belies recent GOP failures in state. PAGE A6
INDEX
Classified ........B4
Comics ............ B7
Playing pinball sharpened the senses, improved coordination and kept kids off the streets, says Phil Bowhay. PAGE A2 Obituaries .......A6
Puzzles/TV.....B6
Sports ............ B1
The car pinned Yelchin, 27, against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence at his home in Studio City. PAGE A6 Weather ..........B8
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A hot spell this week will have areas such as Gilroy and Morgan Hill flirting with tripledigit heat. PAGE A3
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Incinerators to burn up Sierra’s dead trees
FATAL CRASH
U.S. OPEN
State >> A6
Sports >> B1
San Jose officer was living out his dreams
State >> A2
Dustin Johnson takes home first major
Sunny
H: 68 L: 52
Monday, June 20, 2016
$1.00
»
FACEBOOK.COM/MONTEREYHERALD TWITTER.COM/MONTEREYHERALD
LEBRON’S YEAR NBA FINALS
Cavs are champs: Cleveland celebrates first major sports title Warriors stunned: Air goes out on team’s spectacular season
There, at the end, Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala just froze in place, like they were stuck in a moment that should’ve never happened. That seemed to be occurring Tim Kawakami in an impossible dimension with an unimaginable conclusion. Until right then, until this Warriors dream season was over, frittered away, failed, and then fading to black. The buzzer for Game 7 sounded, the Warriors lost 93-89, Oracle Arena went silent except for the exclamations of the Cavaliers, and Curry and Iguodala just stood there as most of their teammates filed off the court and back into the locker room. They waited. They witnessed. Eventually, they congratulated the Cavaliers players and coaches they could. It was over — the Warriors’ 73-victory regular season, the playoff journey, the 3-1 lead in this Finals series, this operatic game. And somebody else was triumphant, somebody else played better, coached better, played harder, and deserved it. Somebody who was not the Warriors, who became the first team in Finals history to lose after taking a 3-1 lead. “Yeah, it stung,” Curry said later of those minutes watching LeBron James & Co. scream and hug. “It sucked to watch them celebrate, and we wish that would have been us. “But at the end of the day, you congratulate them for accomplishing what they set out to do, and it will be a good image for us over the summer and all next season to remember so that we can come back stronger.” The Warriors, though, were supposed to be the strongest team in the league and maybe one of the strongest teams in NBA history. They were supposed to back up last season’s chamOAKLAND >>
LEBRON >> PAGE 4
CARMEL >> Children in strollers, dogs on leashes and runners in brightly colored shoes took to the streets of Carmel on Sunday for the Big Sur Interna-
CONGRESS
Farr to introduce pot research bill Goal is to streamline approval, security measures
By Tommy Wright [email protected] @wrightscribe on Twitter
D-Carmel, plans on introducing a bipartisan, bicameral bill this week that would make it easier for researchers to study marijuana. “This bill is about helping people,” Farr said in a press release. “As more states pass their own medical marijuana laws, it’s time for Congress to reexamine federal policy. This bill does just that by supporting research so policy decisions about the role of medical marijuana are based on science and facts instead of rhetoric.” Farr will introduce the bill with Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, and Rep. H. Morgan Griffith, R-Va. A similar bill will be introduced in the Senate by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Sen. Orrin Hatch, RUtah, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. “As a physician who has conducted (National Institutes of Health) sponsored research, I can’t stress enough how critical this legislation is to the scientific community,” said Harris, a former Johns Hopkins Hospital physician, in a prepared statement. “Our drug policy was never intended to act as an impediment to conducting legitimate medical research. We need empirical scientific evidence to clearly determine whether marijuana has meFARR >> PAGE 4
WATER MANAGEMENT
ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, center, celebrates after winning Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday in Oakland. The Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors 93-89.
Should state limit small water agencies? Senate bill would make it more difficult to add to the state’s 7,500-plus systems
TONY DEJAK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cleveland Cavaliers fans Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Cleveland Cavaliers fans hold up celebrate after the team’s victory Curry answers questions during a signs after Game 7on Sunday in on Sunday in Cleveland. post-game press conference. Cleveland.
Kids, adults, dogs race through Carmel By Tom Leyde [email protected]
montereyherald.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. >> Rep. Sam Farr,
RUN IN THE NAME OF LOVE
Participants in annual event pay tribute to loved ones
PAGE B8
tional Marathon’s annual Run in the Name of Love. About 800 people registered for the fundraiser, which featured a 5K run and a 2K walk. Proceeds benefit the marathon’s Youth Fitness Program. Entrants represented 15 states and the countries of Canada and Australia, said Sally Smith, event registrant. Participants could run or walk to pay tribute to a loved one. Bibs read, “I am running
in the name of …” Friends, sons, daughters, parents, grandparents, mothers- and fathers-in-law were named on participants’ bibs. Karen and Richard Johnson of Monterey honored their daughter, Claudia, who died in February. “This is our special day. We’re running in honor of our daughter,” Karen Johnson said. The two were joined by Richard’s son and their golden MARATHON >> PAGE 4
Adam Roach, center, who won April’s Big Sur International Marathon, leads the start of Sunday’s 5K Run in the Name of Love in Carmel. Roach won in 15:57.
By Paul Rogers [email protected]
California’s drought has revealed that when it comes to water, not every community is equal. Large urban areas, from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, asked residents to conserve, raised rates to buy water from other places and generally have gotten by without much inconvenience, other than brown lawns and shorter showers. But communities served by smaller systems, from farm towns to forest hamlets — often lacking money, expertise and modern equipment — have struggled and, in some cases, nearly run out of water entirely. Now, a bill by a Bay Area state lawmaker aims to slow the spread of little “mom and pop” water providers by making it very difficult to create new ones. The problem, says state Sen. WATER >> PAGE 4
POLITICS
FLASHBACK
OBITUARY
WEATHER
Trump stuck on GOP’s California dream
Pinball wizardry in the good old days
‘Star Trek’ actor Anton Yelchin killed by own car
Heat is here for parts of Northern California
Trump’s claim that he will win election’s biggest electoral prize belies recent GOP failures in state. PAGE A6
INDEX
Classified ........B4
Comics ............ B7
Playing pinball sharpened the senses, improved coordination and kept kids off the streets, says Phil Bowhay. PAGE A2 Obituaries .......A6
Puzzles/TV.....B6
Sports ............ B1
The car pinned Yelchin, 27, against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence at his home in Studio City. PAGE A6 Weather ..........B8
Volume95, 95, issue Volume issue26
A hot spell this week will have areas such as Gilroy and Morgan Hill flirting with tripledigit heat. PAGE A3
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