"""A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green"" is the first line of which American novel?"
Soledad, California of September 5, 2009, the bus stops in Soledad are located at the correctional facility, Front & San Vicente and Monterey & East. There are two school districts in the Soledad area: Soledad Unified School District & Mission Union School District SUSD MUSD Television service for the community comes from the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz designated market area (DMA). Radio stations Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz area of dominant influence (ADI) or continuous measurement market (CMM). Local newspapers include the "Monterey County Herald", "Salinas Californian" and "Soledad Bee". Soledad is also the setting of the story in John Steinbeck's novel, "Of Mice and Men". In
Salinas River (California) River and the controlled outflows of the Nacimiento and San Antonio reservoirs through their respective river tributaries in southern Monterey County. The river passes through the active San Ardo Oil Field, and then into and through the Salinas Valley. It flows past many small towns in the valley, including: King City, Greenfield, and Soledad, where it combines with the flash-flood prone Arroyo Seco. It flows 3 miles south of the city of Salinas before cutting through Fort Ord and flows into central Monterey Bay approximately 3 miles west of Castroville. The final stretch of the river forms a lagoon protected