Letter to the Editor | Recycling Event Brings Much-Needed Services to Lockwood
To the Editor:
The free Lockwood and San Lucas Community Drop-Off Event, recently provided by Waste Management and Monterey County, offered a huge bonus to our rural area.
Many services available in urban areas are not repeated rurally, largely because of higher costs and lower density....
Funny Papers Again Column | Looking Back and Seeing Ahead
Before I get into the bits and pieces of todayās column, let me offer a mea culpa regarding some misinformation in last weekās column. I stated that KCHS Class of 1972 has their 50th class reunion scheduled for the same date as the Classes...
Worthy to Print Column | Friends and Momās Wisdom
One time a long time ago I asked my mom for a quarter. She said she was sorry, but she didnāt have any money that day. I canāt remember why I needed a quarter, but I bet it was for candy. I always wanted...
Worthy to Print Column | Family Is the Greatest Treasure
Wow! Has it been a week already? Do you find that it seems like time is rushing by while we wonder if we should wear a mask to go to buy groceries? What have we learned in these crazy times? I mean, we knew...
Funny Papers Again Column | Part II: Will the GOP Take Its True Place?
The fact that the United States of America has no officially sanctioned State Religion, but does in fact have a policy of separation of Church and State, means little to Mr. Trump who claims Christianity. A look at his family relations, his actions toward...
Worthy to Print Column: Weāre All in This Together
What in the world is going on with our government? You have a guy that was videoed threatening to use his power to hold up aid to a foreign countryās aid, then getting millions of dollars transferred to his son and brother actually trading...
Funny Papers Again Column | This Just In: Sacramento Lawmakers Scuttle Local Columnist
For todayās column I cite Joe Mathews as main source. Joe writes the California Connected column for Arizona State Universityās publication Zocalo Public Square (which is redundant as a zocalo is a public square, but I digress).
Instead of taking a dramatic approach where I...
Window on the World Column | The Blackout
I must have missed the memo that day. It was an important one; the one that informed me that there would be no power at my house for three days. Perhaps it went to my husbandās phone and not my own, but somehow said...
Worthy to Print Column: Always darkest before the dawn
I had to go to South San Francisco on business yesterday. It was really hot while I was up there. Not something I have seen often. Usually there is a breeze off the ocean where my customer has his plant. But it was missing...





















