Highlanders gather to define their community

By Anne Adams • Staff Writer MONTEREY — Steeped in frustration, citizens left the elementary school gym in the wee hours of last Friday morning no closer to understanding what the future held for them than they had seven hours earlier. It wasn’t your average public hearing. For one thing, no one here can remember a pending board decision ever bringing that many people —almost 500 — together at one time. And it’s likely the longest hearing anyone here has ever attended. But its significance wasn’t measured in hours.

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