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December 16, 2025

Window on the World Column: A week of firsts

I’ve been digging rather deeply recently to try and find the good stuff in the world. I’m sure I’m not the only person to say that life is currently pretty tough. Coupled with my husband’s illness and our financial stress, the wide open spaces...

Worthy to Print Column | Another Day in Paradise

George Worthy
How was your week? Mine was pretty great. Shoot, it should have been. After all, I was turning 80, and if you can’t have a good time on your 80th birthday, when are you going to have fun? Like most good things that happen to...

OPINION: Enjoy the moment

Local column by Lucy Jensen

King City working to address housing issues

Commentary by Steve Adams

Window on the World Column | The Wonderful World of Books

Lucy Jensen
I wish more people read books. I’ve said that many times in my life since the Internet has become near everything in people’s lives and books were placed on the back shelf, as it were, where they have become very dusty. Occasionally I’ll get...

Letters to the Editor for Week of June 14

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Guest Column | Volunteerism and Community Spirit Are the Cornerstones of South Monterey County Healthcare

How do you kickstart a quality healthcare system in a small agricultural town during one of the worst economic slumps in American history? Philanthropy and volunteerism, that’s how. King City opened the area’s first full-fledged hospital in 1941, with 22 beds in a single-story building...

Window on the World Column | The Journey Home

My friend from Salinas works for Monterey County and is a proverbial animal nut like me. She contacted me one day and told me that her husband had been working out on Metz Road and the residents there had told him about a stray...

Worthy to Print Column: The lost papers

Do you remember the year 2000? I had forgotten a lot about that year until I had a chance to visit my brother, who lives in Idaho, last week. He loves Idaho, but I didn’t lose anything up there. However, it had been a...

Funny Papers Again Column | Seniors: Come Learn, Dine, Sing, Dance!

I am a senior citizen. There is no getting around that, no matter how much I attempt to mitigate the fact. I know this because of what society tells me with progressive programs, private sector directives and legislations starting with age 55 years when...
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