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February 11, 2026

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...

Family is where you find it

Local column by Lucy Jensen

Funny Papers Again Column | Looking Forward to a New Start After Spring Has Sprung

Steve Wilson
Today’s column will fall short of the normal 1,000 words. And, with the blessing of Ryan my boss at New SV Media, it will be my last column for the month of March. It is far easier to write about a subject if that subject...

Funny Papers Again Column | This Is the Best Thing We Do … This Is Our Finest Hour

I uttered those words last Thursday evening from an outdoor stage during an event that, for me, is THE event of the year: The King City Community Scholarship Foundation Inc. Drive-In Banquet. Unlike fundraiser events where the goal is to enlarge the coffers of...

Guest Column | Mee Memorial Investing in Behavioral Health

Mee Memorial Healthcare System Rena Salamacha
When the 2022 Monterey County Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) was released, behavioral health was identified as one of the region’s top priorities—underscoring a critical shortage of mental health providers and support systems across the County. In response, Mee Memorial Healthcare System (MMHS) launched 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...

Window on the World Column | Covid — Year 2

They said it would all be gone by now; it would have just been blown away like an errant feather — a dark memory from the archives of 2020. The last Christmas holidays, that should have been spent in my hometown on the English...

Words matter and how best to respond

Joanne's Got It: Column by Joanne Banuelos

Worthy to Print Column | Remember to Slow Down

ā€œHi honey, how is it going?ā€ My bride and the lady that makes life worthwhile for me walked over from the front door and gave me a peck on the cheek as she headed on into the kitchen. I could feel my heart skip...

Letter to the Editor | Small Acts of Kindness

To the Editor: Last week I wrote a guest column on the Western Flyer, the legendary boat that took John Steinbeck and Doc Ricketts to the sea of Cortez in 1940. A reader pointed out it wasn’t all about community, that Carol Steinbeck helped a great...
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