Funny Papers Again Column | From Russia Without Love
I was attending a baseball game on the Greenfield Elementary School grounds when a car pulled up next to the entrance gate on 10th Street. It was a black four-door Ford, just like the ones the FBI drove on television, with two men in...
Window on the World Column | The Therapy of a Passion
Years ago, Iād never received the memo that you work for your life and not the other way around. Gradually as the grey hairs grew and the wisdom pearls hatched a little from dusty eggs of experience, I realized that most of us are...
Funny Papers Again Column | Sadness and Gladness in Stormy Weather
āIt must first be said that with increased residential and agricultural use and improved water management, flood concern is not what it was a few decades back.ā
Regarding the above statement, if I can be forgiven for using baseball metaphors at the height of football...
Funny Papers Again Column | A Time of Music, Dance and Old Friends
The Pops! are coming, the Pops! are coming! In fact, by the time you read this, they may already be in town. Iām talking about the Monterey County Pops! Symphony Orchestra (and those are not typos, the name includes the exclamation point after Pops;...
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...
Funny Papers Again Column | A Merry Time at Mee
The next two weekās Funny Papers were about one-third written; they touched upon two subjects of which I had enough knowledge to write first drafts and then follow up with first-hand information. But a nagging little pain in my neck on Thursday morn had...
Letter to the Editor | Restoring the Balance
To the Editor:
Thanks for bringing Steve Wilson back to your pages. I found his column about words in last weekās edition creative, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable.
In contrast, your other contributing columnistās whining about what he deems unfair felt like its complete antithesis. Closing with...
Guest Column | Monterey Symphony Returns to Salinas for āLove Letter to Hollywoodā
Just 15 months following the end of World War II, a small yet passionate group of musicians and fans of classical music gathered for tea at the Carmel home of Grace Howden.
Less than a year later (April 28, 1947), the Monterey Symphony gave its...
Funny Papers Again Column | Golf Program for Local Youth Hits a Hole-In-One
I do not know much about the game of golf. Not sure even if golf is referred to as a game, or a sport or a hobby or what. What I can see about the game, let us stick with game, is that a...



















