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July 2, 2025

Letter to the Editor | Working Together to Help Animals

To the Editor: SPCA Monterey County agrees that we need solutions to save stray animals (ā€œWe Need Solutions to Save Our Stray Animals,ā€ Aug. 10). Those answers are low-cost spay/neuter, adoptions, foster care, microchipping and compassionate shelters, rescue groups and animal control agencies working...

Adventure Abounds Column: Playing Fowl

Getting an oddball pet can be a great motivator, especially when it provides food for you as well as bug control and an endless supply of fertilizer for the garden. I never thought I’d be one to raise a flock of fowl ever again in...

OPINION: Charity should begin at home

Local column by Lucy Jensen

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Joanne's Got It: Column by Joanne Banuelos

Guest Column | The Western Flyer’s Journey Revives Legacy of Community

Two weeks ago I opened the Rustler to a long article whose headline proclaimed, ā€œWestern Flyer Sets Sail With Weekend Celebration and Send-Off Festivities.ā€ I immediately ordered tickets online to what was described as an ā€œenchanting evening titled ā€˜Tales from the Western Flyer’ celebrating the...

Worthy to Print Column | The Eternal Flame

If you have read any of my scribbling over time, you know I’m a lifelong conservative. I don’t know exactly when I discovered this. Although I can’t remember much about politics until my platoon sergeant and I were sitting on the hood of a...

Worthy to Print Column | Moving Along

Have you ever had a situation that required you to step way out of your comfort zone? Perhaps meeting someone that is important to your future for the first time? Or maybe you are looking for a new job that might be a little...

Guest Column | Successes Lead to Bright Future for Rural Health Care

As we gather during the holidays and bid farewell to another year under the shadow of the pandemic, I wanted to shine a light on all the good I see around me every day. As I close out my second year as Mee Memorial Healthcare...

Guest Column: City of King Grant Efforts Beginning to Pay Off

Despite major progress, the City of King continues to face significant financial challenges, which have increased with the economic impacts of Covid-19. The City has a limited tax base, a negative General Fund balance and tremendous needs. Following the outbreak of the pandemic, the...

Funny Papers Again Column | It Is Not About the Writer, but the Writer’s Intent

Steve Wilson
The comment, often offered as criticism, that for writers of columns it is ā€œall about themā€ and so of little value beyond opinion, which we all have. Very true. If you regularly read Lucy’s stuff up in Soledad or every Wednesday in Gonzales you...
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