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December 13, 2025

Worthy to Print Column | Make the Trip

What a month! There are so many things that have to be done during this month. Of course, if you live in Gonzales, you know this is the month that the whole town turns out to honor the men and women who gave their...

Window on the World Column | Amazing Grace

Lucy Jensen
I first met Lori Tuttle by chance — is anything actually by chance — at a craft vendor fair on Highway 68. She had a lovely stall of repurposed goods with a cowboy touch that she had lovingly restored. I was selling my books....

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...

Funny Papers Again Column | It ā€˜Was’ the Best of Times… It ā€˜Is’ the Worst of Times (With Apology to CD)

Steve Wilson
Let me begin this week’s column by stating I don’t anticipate the subject to bring anyone to tears but myself. It is important to me to tell this story, but it will be a bit cryptic in that I will not use any proper...

Window on the World Column | Life-Saving Measures

I knew she had been unwell for some time. When I say ā€œsometime,ā€ I mean years. It was quite shocking when I saw her the last time. The liver disease was really taking its toll on her, and she told me that she was...

Window on the World Column | Olive and Mabel, Mary and Tony

During the last several months of Covid — or the ongoing lifetime of this pandemic, depending on how you feel about it — people and dogs seem to have become even closer. Record adoption levels at shelters were noted the world over. People needed...

Letter to the Editor | King City Needs Another Grocery Store

To the Editor: If ever there was a good example of why King City needs another major grocery store, it was Friday, July 22. Folks walking in the door at Safeway to do their weekend shopping were faced with a totally empty meat case. Not...

Funny Papers Again Column | An Old Market Gets Attention, and a Library Still Waiting

Steve Wilson
In offering kudos to my hometown, I use the energetic parlance of the day: ā€œa shout-out to the city of Greenfield and a new look for an old building!ā€ After what many felt was a bit too long, the two-story building that occupies the...

Worthy to Print Column | Friends Forever

George Worthy
ā€œWho is at the door?ā€ I asked my wife as I rolled over stretching my arms above my head. Lorraine responded,Ā  ā€œDid you forget that Gordon is coming over to help you with the truck?ā€ I sat up and rubbed my eyes. I couldn’t...

Letter to the Editor | Quality Health Care Right on Our Doorstep

To the Editor: The first time I experienced the highly skilled and professional services of the Mee Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, it was all my fault. I had dumped my motorcycle out on Oasis Road and literally left my Shakespearean ā€œpound of fleshā€ on the roadway. Battered and...
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