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March 25, 2026

Worthy to Print Column | Tired of Getting Older

I just got back from my monthly trip to Home Depot. I can’t go more often because I buy things that require me to stop and put up a picture or change an electric outlet, and sometimes I just don’t feel like taking the...

Letter to the Editor | King City’s Architectural Gem

To the Editor: Recently, I was reading the extensive Wikipedia Art Deco history website. In it, I was pleasantly surprised to see a photo of King City’s Stanton Auditorium featured as one of only four examples of ā€œLate Decoā€ architecture. Like so many things, you can...

Guest Column | Monterey County Free Libraries’ 5 Things to Celebrate in February 2026

Library books reading
Happy February! In February, we have Valentine’s Day, President’s Day and so many things to celebrate. 1. February is one of our favorite months because it is also Library Lover’s Month! Do you love your library? There are many ways to show your library love....

Funny Papers Again Column | To Vote, or Not to Vote … That Is the Real Question

A recent article in the latest Rustler and Tribune editions informs of upcoming voting changes in the city of Greenfield (ā€œDistrictwide Elections on the Horizon,ā€ March 24) and I thought I would take a few inches of newsprint to offer some opinions on the...

Letter to the Editor | Time to Build Long-Proposed Lake Tunnel

To the Editor: During the last two days of rain, it was announced that the rapidly filling dam at Lake Nacimiento had to release water into the rising Salinas River. This could have been avoided and that water saved if the long-proposed tunnel to connect...

Funny Papers Again Column | The Twelfth Month and Its Celebrations Around the World

Steve Wilson
For those who do not recall Funny Papers Again of two weeks ago, it was about Christmas and so I had done some research about December celebrations, but due to word allotment it was omitted because I went on, some would say, on and...

Window on the World Column | Bucket Listed

I’ve no idea where the term ā€œbucket listā€ came from because it makes absolutely no sense. Fortunately, everyone understands what it is. Most of us of a certain age have such a thing — a checklist of sorts for our bucket — places we...

Funny Papers Again Column | Random Trivia, New Words, a Short Tutorial and Some Local History

Steve Wilson
ā€œThere 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€ ā€œThe day you were born and the day you die are the only two days in your life lasting...

Funny Papers Again Column | What Devotion Requires the Last Full Measure?

This week’s column will be, of necessity and choice, a bit shorter in length than normal. Since I was a little boy raised in the Eisenhower Generation I have, as have many others of my generation, seen War movies from World War I (the...

Window on the World Column | The Wedding Planner

Lucy Jensen
You imagine it’s a rite of passage, your children eventually getting married. Once they leave home and start building a life with someone, there is an inevitability to it, if they are that way inclined. After our family trip to Montana, my daughter flashed...
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