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Letters to the Editor | Published Jan. 8, 2020

Editor's Note: We welcome Letters to the Editor of local and general interest to our readers. Letters should be typed and include the writer’s first and last name, home address and phone number for verification. No anonymous letters will be printed. Letters may be edited...

Window on the World Column | The Journey Home

My friend from Salinas works for Monterey County and is a proverbial animal nut like me. She contacted me one day and told me that her husband had been working out on Metz Road and the residents there had told him about a stray...

Funny Papers Again Column | If Grandma and Peter Did It, Why Not Me?

Steve Wilson
I have for many years been a reader of biographies, a habit I got into way back in the early 1960s after my parents purchased a set of encyclopedia, which included a series of biographies of famous Americans, one a month for a year....

Window on the World Column | Joining Other Olympians at the Pool

Lucy Jensen
ā€œI want that body!ā€ I said to the husband. We were watching the Olympic Swim Trials. Broad shoulders, muscles, I love it! It’s that time of year when people are stripping down, displaying their body-beautiful to the world, heading to the ocean or a...

Window on the World Column | The Full Moon

Lucy Jensen
When you start the week at the early morning water aerobics class at the Soledad pool, you go out the gate like a champ, rising to greatness like the very light itself coming up. There is nearly nothing as life enhancing as watching the...

Worthy to Print | Home stretch

In just a few weeks, I’ll have to come up with a new excuse to keep from doing any chores around the house. I know you have heard this before, but this is my last semester (I hope) at school. The way it is...

Funny Papers Again Column | From the Shores of Tripoli to the Streets of Athens to the Library at KCHS

Steve Wilson
ā€œFrom the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli; we will fight out country’s battles in the air, on land and sea.ā€ Many will recognize that refrain as the opening words of the Marines’ Hymn; I became aware of the song and the...

Funny Papers Again Column | Some Rants and Raves Both Good and Bad

Steve Wilson
I often tell people how difficult it can be to put 1,000 words together every week with the expectation those words will somehow make sense and in so doing entertain readers for a few minutes. I tell people this because it is easy to...

Just be nice

Worthy to Print: Column by George Worthy

Window on the World Column | The Highs and the Low Tides of Life

There is something about the silence of an empty house that is so comforting it is almost not empty at all. When the voices have left the building, the last car door has slammed and the final cup of tea has been consumed, the...
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