Saving and losing family pets once strays
Guest Commentary by Lourdes Villarreal, Greenfield Resident
Guest Column | Make Your Voice Heard Through Health Survey
Throughout the pandemic, collaboration became a key element in the daily fight against the virus. It allowed Monterey County health care organizations, government agencies and nonprofits to work together to better administer not only care, but the dissemination of vital information to help educate...
Letters to the Editor for Week of April 26
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Worthy to Print Column: Doggone It
I have these two dogs. They are a mix between Border Collie and Australian Shepherd. These are the absolute smartest dogs I have ever seen. They sleep in the house, but they are not allowed on the bed or any furniture, as far as...
Worthy to Print Column | Find What Makes You Happy
Have you ever asked yourself, āWhat do I want to be when I grow up?ā For those of you who know me, you might say Iām still trying to figure that out. I come from humble means and always wanted to make my mom...
Funny Papers Again Column | Step Forward, Gentlemen, and Step Lively
I have set aside my regular column this week, a little story about me and my dog in Arroyo Seco, nicely told in my humble opinion, but still just a little story; it will wait for another time. What prompted the change was my...
Window on the World Column | A Better Point of View
āItās OK for the young people,ā she said. āThey have all the time in the world. Us oldies donāt have a year to waste sitting around the house and waiting to start up life againā¦ā Initially I felt sad for this older lady and...
Worthy to Print Column | The Good Ones Always Leave Early
In 1940, American author Ernest Hemingway wrote a book named āFor Whom the Bell Tolls.ā It wasnāt his best book, but it had a few passages that reminded me this past week that he certainly had a way with words. The title of the...
Funny Papers Again Column | Motorcycle Mayhem: Part Two
I donāt know how the whole thing began, but it happened on Thanksgiving Day of 1969. My friend Dennis was a motorcycle rider, and for one reason or other I was going to ride one of his smaller bikes from Point A to Point...
Window on the World Column | Joy Seeking
I couldnāt think what to do with myself. My baby girl was lying in a hospital bed with a broken back when she should have been enjoying the vacation of a lifetime in Montana. She was heavily drugged and monitored. She slept a lot...



















