Guest Column | Separating From Stuff Is Difficult, but Making a Difference Is Easy
February is the month of love, and certainly not the time to talk about breakups. But when it comes to separating from all the āstuffā in your life, the familiar refrain, āItās not you, itās me,ā rings true.
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Worthy to Print Column | One Manās Junk Is Another Manās Treasure
I spent most of the day on Saturday cleaning out my garage, and I donāt know if I will finish before the weekend is over. Funny how I keep watching the detritus get taller and taller. I keep telling myself that I will be...
Saving and losing family pets once strays
Guest Commentary by Lourdes Villarreal, Greenfield Resident
Worthy to Print Column | Looking to the Future
Hello everyone. You may have noticed lately that my column has been a little shy in the volume department. I can only blame that on the fact that many things have changed around the old, āWorthy to Printā homestead. In case you were smiling...
Worthy to Print Column | All About the Benjamins
How are you doing? I mean, do you still wear your mask? Did you seriously see that the doctor that goes on TV wants us to wear three? The past few days are almost historic. Some folks from the surrounding areas of what we...
Funny Papers Again Column | A Long Look Back: A Seniorās Prerogative
For those of us with multiple decades behind us as we continue our personal journeys toward some inevitable end, it seems the compulsion increases to reminisce about the time known as the Holiday Season. Or maybe it is just me.
How the marked days at...
Funny Papers Again Column | 3:10 to King City ā All Aboard!
Unless one has been living in a cave the past few years, one canāt help but notice the changes that have taken place in the downtown area of King City, as they are quite evident. Everything from color schemes to uniform awnings to colorful...
Window on the World Column | The Time of Year
It was on one of the local online groups, ordinarily used for lost dogs or downtown incidents. The lady said that she had never asked for anything before and yet she really needed some help this year for her children. She had been laid...
Worthy to Print Column | Time for Confession
This is confession time. We columnists sometimes have difficulties coming up with an article that will be enjoyed by you, the reader. Something on the page that peaks your interest. Or something about the guys that are supposed to be running our country, about...
Worthy to Print Column | Still Learning
I love living in the Salinas Valley. I have always loved this part of the state. Oh sure there is the wind, but that you have to have something to dust while cleaning house. I will say that you really never, as our early...




















