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December 1, 2025

Window on the World Column | Grandmas Return to Vegas

Lucy Jensen
This had been a long time in the making. The last time we did ā€œGrandmas Gone Wildā€ in Vegas was only just post-pandemic and things were a little different back then. I’m not what you would call a gambler, per se, but I do...

Letter to the Editor | Mee Memorial Hospital Gift Shop Closes

To the Editor: After many years, the Gift Shop located at Mee Memorial Hospital in King City is closing. Service League volunteers spent countless hours contributing to the success of the Gift Shop. All profits were used to purchase needed equipment for our hospital and also...

OPINION: Living with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Local column by George Worthy

Funny Papers Again Column | To the Classes of 2022: Dear Graduates…

Greetings and congratulations to those of you who have completed the prescribed course of academia and have now, or soon will be, granted a diploma from your respective Salinas Valley schools. As has been pointed out to you all, your graduation is an important...

Funny Papers Again Column | What Stories Lie Beneath the Stones?

I like cemeteries. That is not a ghoulish statement, or at least not meant to be. A cemetery is a walk through history, both recent and long ago, where the changing culture of a town, city or region is written on the headstones of...

Funny Papers Again Column | Summer Solstice and the Last Word on Local Fun in the Sun

This is my last Funny Papers Again column for the Valley newspapers, so if you have been a fan over the past couple of years then, well, just read slowly, I guess. More on this at the end of this column. Last Wednesday was the...

Window on the World Column | Her Fourth Anniversary

Even as I am feeling sad inside my head, louder I hear her voice … ā€œOh for crying out loud, sisterā€ or words to that effect. ā€œIt’s been blooming four years! Time to let me go and think about more interesting things.ā€ I wish...

Letter to the Editor | September Is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and It’s Time to Talk About It

To the Editor: Suicide is one of the most challenging societal issues of our time, claiming more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined. Per the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide rates increased approximately 36% between 2000 and 2021. Suicide was...

Worthy to Print Column | Happy Thanksgiving

This is undoubtedly my favorite day of the year. There are no gifts to worry about and you don’t even get mad at the kids. This day is one of the very best days that God allowed us. You don’t have to buy presents...

Funny Papers Again Column | The Easy and Hard Way Ideas Come To Mind

Steve Wilson
ā€œTelevision commercials are an assault upon the senses and an insult to intelligence.ā€ The sentence appears quoted and italicized because I think it is a pretty good opening sentence. Opening sentences are important, as those first words of an author must grasp the reader’s attention...
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