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March 13, 2026

Guest Column | Embracing Vitality: Essential Tips for Lifelong Health and Wellness

Mee Memorial Healthcare System Rena Salamacha
September is Healthy Aging Month, an ideal time to celebrate the positive aspects of aging and focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle that allows us to thrive at every age and stage of life. Healthy aging isn’t just about living longer; it's about fully enjoying...

Window on the World Column | Showtime Over Easter

Lucy Jensen
It was finally Show Time, and I was so excited. Not only was I doing a book signing with my oldest friend in my hometown on the East Coast of England, but the book was also based on our childhoods growing up in this...

Letters to the Editor for Week of April 19

South County Newspapers welcome Letters to the Editor of fewer than 400 words. Submit all letters with the writer's name and contact information to [email protected].

Funny Papers Again Column | School Daze… in Two-Part Harmony

It is not uncommon that readers will occasionally offer nice comments about Funny Papers Again, and because I’m only good at speaking to people when they are an audience and I’m working from a script written by someone else, I usually find myself tongue...

Funny Papers Again Column | A House Divided … You Know the Rest

Most historians cite the Battle of Bear Valley in 1924, a confrontation between the U.S. Army and Apache warriors, as the last battle fought on American soil. Our nation was born in The Revolutionary War and withstood wars of varying lengths: The War of...

Funny Papers Again Column | All’s Fair in Love’n the Fair War

(NOTE: After completing this column, I was informed there will not be a talent show at this year’s Salinas Valley Fair, but I’m going with this anyhoo. —SCW) If the title of this week’s Funny Papers Again confuses or confounds you, then think how I...

Funny Papers Again Column | Words From One Bad Guy to Another

I was thinking about John Dillinger the other day while watching a 1934 William Powell-Myrna Loy film by the name of ā€œManhattan Melodrama.ā€ It also starred Clark Gable, but for some of us cinephiles the Powell-Loy combination is one of the best pairings in...

Guest Column | How Farmworkers Outlawed ā€˜El Cortito’ 50 Years Ago

For decades in the Salinas Valley, the short-handle hoe, known as ā€œEl Cortito,ā€ was used for weeding and thinning rows of crops that kept farmworkers stooped over for long hours each day. Workers were only able to stand and stretch when they reached the...

Worthy to Print Column | I Am What I Am and That’s All That I Am

George Worthy
I suppose that today I should write something about how messed up our government is, but I think that would be too easy. There is no use in restating my thoughts about how miserable it is being run right now. If you read anything...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Long, Slow-Flowing River — and Not a Soul in It

Steve Wilson
I received an email from a fellow who lives out Jolon way, in which I was asked about a situation I had never really considered and I found that I was probably too close to the subject to have ever had the notion enter...
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