Letter to the Editor: We Must Hold School Board Accountable
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Window on the World Column | The Soup Diaries ā A Work of Love
Thereās something about being an author that is very addictive. Sometimes you can be midway through the tedious proofing of a manuscript ā most writersā least favorite thing ā and already be working on the plot for the next book.
Sometimes ā as is the...
Worthy to Print Column | Itās a surprise!!!
āHey honey, would you come into the kitchen?ā This was how I was greeted as my bride was standing there with a cup of the very best coffee I have ever sipped. But there was someone else standing next to her that was unexpected....
Window on the World Column | Homeward Bound
Having left our children at Billings Airport and no doubt shed a couple of tears, we shall be staying at the Laughing Horse Lodge, which just begs you to stay there no matter what. Actually, the very reason I do want very much to...
Guest Column | Tackling the Commercial Property Crime Epidemic
As the once-owner of Salinas Valley Ford Truck Center in Salinas, I find myself grappling with a profound sense of loss and frustration. For more than three decades, our family business provided excellent service to the local community and government agencies. Then, in the blink of...
Adventure Abounds Column: A chance to reflect
Garden serenity is getting difficult in the afternoons with the dual challenge of ever-rising temperatures and afternoon winds that seem like theyāre powerful enough to give Dorothy another trip to Oz. The morning and evening calms, however, make it all worth it.
For those who...
Letter to the Editor: Changing His Tone
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Funny Papers Again Column | The Long, Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
āThe Arroyo Seco River begins its life far atop the Santa Sierra Range of Monterey County where its headwaters rapidly flow downward through gorges of solid rock cut deep by millennia of erosion then wends its way eastward along beaches lined by sycamore and...
Worthy to Print Column | Celebrating Mom
What a great weekend for Motherās Day. I hope you got to see and tell your mother how happy you are that she is your mother and what she means to you. I got to see whatās left of the family that lives around...
Window on the World Column: Happy Mother’s Day
Gilroyās early life started, well, in Gilroy. My friend and neighbor called me from the Gilroy shopping outlets and told me what she had found in the parking lot there. āWell, bring him on home!ā I told her, as you do. A few years...



















