66.2 F
King City
April 28, 2026

Letter to the Editor | King City in Bloom Urges Voters to Support Measure T

To the Editor: King City in Bloom urges you to vote yes on Measure T on Nov. 5. This is a 1/2-cent tax on sales that will apply to travelers as well as residents. In that way, the cost is spread to the people who...

Guest Column | Volunteerism and Community Spirit Are the Cornerstones of South Monterey County Healthcare

How do you kickstart a quality healthcare system in a small agricultural town during one of the worst economic slumps in American history? Philanthropy and volunteerism, that’s how. King City opened the area’s first full-fledged hospital in 1941, with 22 beds in a single-story building...

Worthy to Print Column | A Day in the Life of a Soldier — Part II

George Worthy
Last week I wrote a little to explain why Special Forces are such revered soldiers. It is because they have studied small unit warfare for at least three months back at Fort Bragg, the home of Special Forces. This is where they earn the...

Letter to the Editor | King City Needs Another Grocery Store

To the Editor: If ever there was a good example of why King City needs another major grocery store, it was Friday, July 22. Folks walking in the door at Safeway to do their weekend shopping were faced with a totally empty meat case. Not...

Window on the World Column | Rites of Passage

Lucy Jensen
My baby girl is getting married this weekend and I just can’t believe it. Eight months or so of furious planning and here we are. Your mind flashes back to the first time you laid eyes on her in this world, that sweet, cooing...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Merry Time at Mee

The next two week’s Funny Papers were about one-third written; they touched upon two subjects of which I had enough knowledge to write first drafts and then follow up with first-hand information. But a nagging little pain in my neck on Thursday morn had...

Window on the World Column | In the Bleak Midwinter

Lucy Jensen
About this time of year — February blending into March — I can get really sick and tired of winter. Folks back home might have a chortle at that; because, yeah, I know, we don’t really have ā€œwinterā€ per se in our neck of...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Quick Take on Some Notable Weekly Names

Steve Wilson
I have often thought about the people whose names appear regularly in our Valley papers and how I too often take their contributions as just matter of fact and miss the nuances. In last week’s edition, there appeared two photographs of rodeo competitors taken...

Funny Papers Again Column | On the Wings of Time Grief Flies Away

We all have what we nostalgically refer to as our ā€œhometown,ā€ that place where we spent maybe not the most years of our lives but surely the years we recall with sharpest memory; and as decade follows decade the people and places we knew...

Worthy to Print Column | A Day in the Life of a Soldier — Part I

George Worthy
The other day Lorraine and I were talking with a family friend about my column. The friend said she particularly liked the articles about the military, not because she served but because she had loved ones that had served in that little skirmish 10,000...
4,408FansLike
924FollowersFollow
480FollowersFollow

Local News