Letter to the Editor | Restoring the Balance
To the Editor:
Thanks for bringing Steve Wilson back to your pages. I found his column about words in last weekās edition creative, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable.
In contrast, your other contributing columnistās whining about what he deems unfair felt like its complete antithesis. Closing with...
Worthy to Print Column | Cold Enough for You?
It sure is cold enough for me. This morning I had to get up early to go to a dentist appointment over in Monterey. When the old alarm clock said, āItās time to get up,ā I just pulled the covers up and said to...
Funny Papers Again Column | A Short Column Today, Folks, Cuz Deadlines Donāt Wait for Nobody
Growing up in Greenfield in the late 1950s through the ā60s and beyond, we (āweā meaning those whose parents, grandparents and beyond spoke English) were introduced to foreign languages and English with idioms and accents previously unknown to us. I doubt Iām alone of...
Window on the World Column | The Time for Feasting
Weāve been on the gravy train these past couple of weeks and this train has fallen off the tracks. Going home for the holidays is not for the faint of heart, as far as the stomach and waistline are concerned. I had planned to...
Letter to the Editor | Mee Memorial Hospital Gift Shop Closes
To the Editor:
After many years, the Gift Shop located at Mee Memorial Hospital in King City is closing.
Service League volunteers spent countless hours contributing to the success of the Gift Shop. All profits were used to purchase needed equipment for our hospital and also...
Worthy to Print Column | Letās Go Truckinā
Did I ever tell you about my pickup? Oh, no need to reply. If I go one day without speaking about the āGreen Machine,ā I start to get the shakes and Lorraine runs out of the room. Donāt get me wrong, she knew that...
Funny Papers Again Column | Random Trivia, New Words, a Short Tutorial and Some Local History
āThere are so many varieties of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday it would take you 20 years to try them all.ā āThe day you were born and the day you die are the only two days in your life lasting...
Worthy to Print Column | Owning a Dog
I donāt know if other writers run into the same problems that I do. I have to find a thousand words to contribute to this paper every week, so I am constantly looking for a hint of something that you might find interesting enough...
Funny Papers Again Column | A New, Bright Street and an Old, Dark Ballet
If I were to offer up a descriptive sentence regarding the cityās newly upgraded main thoroughfare, it would be peppered with adjectives leading to superlatives and culminating with comparatives; i.e. āLike the revitalization seen in Old Town in Salinas, the City of King is...
Window on the World Column | In the Bleak Midwinter
About this time of year ā February blending into March ā I can get really sick and tired of winter. Folks back home might have a chortle at that; because, yeah, I know, we donāt really have āwinterā per se in our neck of...


















