52.9 F
King City
February 9, 2026

Worthy to Print Column | The Worthy Tree

George Worthy
How long have you lived in the house you live in now? I ask, because I was truly startled by the answer my bride gave me when asked: ā€œ34 years,ā€ she said. I asked again just to make sure I was using the same...

Funny Papers Again Column | Old School Is Now a New School

I was cruising around Greenfield the other day and noticed the construction at the old Greenfield Grammar School, which is what back many years ago we called the present-day Mary Chapa Academy. I noticed that the buildings being renovated were a couple of the...

Window on the World Column | Home for the Holidays

Lucy Jensen
There is perhaps no better sound in the world than that of a familiar wave slapping against a familiar beach. I was born and grew up with that sound on the East Coast of England. When I return to my source, it is almost...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Tale of Two Cities: Renovations and Needed Renovations

Steve Wilson
Because I can bring to memory the Greenfield of the late 1950s through the early 1970s, I like it when old things see new life instead of falling into disuse and disrepair and the ultimate end such brings forth. I remember the fine old...

Funny Papers Again Column | Not Feeling Grounded? Go Barefootin’ and See What Happens

Steve Wilson
No matter how I may wish to deny I am old, at two years and seven decades it is nonetheless a fact and, having never been old before, I am unrehearsed for the role. I am not alone in that realization, evidenced by how...

Worthy to Print Column | New Kind of Warfare

What if they started a war and nobody showed up? These words went to a paper I wrote about 40 years ago while stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. I was an instructor with the U.S. Army Institute for Military Assistance. I attended an evening...

Letter to the Editor | The Rest of the Story

To the Editor: Mr. J.J. Burnes, thank you for your letter to the editor regarding Black history (ā€œBlack History,ā€ Feb. 24). The information on Mr. Bass Reeves, 1838-1910, the first Black American Deputy U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma Territory, was very informational. Let me be your Paul...

Window on the World Column | The Soup Diaries

They were the best of friends from a very young age. Though quite different — my sister was very bossy and her friend very sweet and accommodating — they were the ying to each other’s yang. I’m sure sister frequently got a good telling...

Guest Column | How Farmworkers Outlawed ā€˜El Cortito’ 50 Years Ago

For decades in the Salinas Valley, the short-handle hoe, known as ā€œEl Cortito,ā€ was used for weeding and thinning rows of crops that kept farmworkers stooped over for long hours each day. Workers were only able to stand and stretch when they reached the...

Funny Papers Again Column | Part One: A Story of Motorcycle Mayhem

Steve Wilson
Here is a little story about one little incident back in my days of riding motorized two-wheeled transports, also known as motorcycles. Like many of my stories, this one takes place in Greenfield back in the halcyon days of teenhood. (Hey, if there can...
4,408FansLike
908FollowersFollow
480FollowersFollow

Local News