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November 30, 2025

Funny Papers Again Column | Meet the Nippers and the Nipper’s Nippers

Steve Wilson
If any of you readers have paid attention over the past few years, you know I do not include a lot of family stuff; we all have family stories, so my use of space in a newspaper as a journal about my family seems...

Window on the World Column | The Red Ferrari

Lucy Jensen
As the garage door lifted, a glossy red flash came into view, like a shock from the heavens on a cloudy day. She was shiny and new, fresh from the showroom floor. A Ferrari. Or maybe a Lamborghini? No, definitely a Ferrari with her...

Funny Papers Again Column | State Route 198 Revisited: When Wine Came to King City

Steve Wilson
Readers will recall last week’s column left off with my first solo truck run to the other valley to gather grape rootings for transplant here on the Oasis Road development we now know as San Bernabe Vineyard. Before we head over the hills, though,...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Royal Mess, a Royal Lady and Nonsense

This week’s Funny Papers Again column will not appear in this space. Instead, some other nonsense will appear here. The reason for this is because to present an articulate position in a concise manner on the subject chosen I had to do a little...

Window on the World Column | Bucket Listed — Part II

The plane from the Isle of Man to London was only up in the air long enough to take a look at the clouds, and then it was back down again. We landed at London City airport in a timely fashion, hooked a cab...

Funny Papers Again Column | My Bookish Ways During These Triple-Digit Days

Steve Wilson
Today is day 192 of the year, 10 days past the midway point on the Gregorian calendar; there are 173 days remaining in the year 2024. These days mark the season of the Sun, summer is upon us in all its scorching beauty and...

Worthy to Print Column | Coming of Age

Are you getting any older? Do you often go into a room and forget what it was that called your name? How about sports? Do you still get as much out of running as you once did? I don’t mean playing a game, where...

Funny Papers Again Column | ā€˜Buddy, Can You Spare Some Time?’

There is an ancient writing wherein one of the main players, thee Main Player for many, upon His exit from this earthly realm exhorted his followers to ā€œoccupy ā€˜til I come.ā€ So for the past 55 years I have occupied myself in more fields...

Window on the World Column | Mapping It on From Billings West

Lucy Jensen
Mapping it on from Billings was a bit of a wrench for our boy Aaron, since you can never see everyone you want to when you go home; though he did manage to connect with two grandmas, a grandpa and an uncle in the...

Worthy to Print Column | Tolerance

George Worthy
What a morning! I have been watching a series of videos on my computer that have given me some things to ponder over. I have thought that it was important to share, but haven’t had the time to do so. You know how you...
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