Guest Column | King City Begins Traffic Enforcement Program
The City of King has received an increasing number of calls from citizens regarding excessive speeding in residential neighborhoods. As a result, the King City Police Department applied for and received approval for two state grants totaling $102,500 to increase outreach, enforcement and technology.
The...
Letter to the Editor: Changing His Tone
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Guest Column | Diabetes Risk Is Higher in Rural Communities
For members of previous generations, a āwakeup callā meant having a hotel employee ring their room at a certain time to rouse them from bed. Today the term is used when weāve been doing something self destructive for some time (perhaps without realizing it)...
Window on the World Column | The Time of Year
It was on one of the local online groups, ordinarily used for lost dogs or downtown incidents. The lady said that she had never asked for anything before and yet she really needed some help this year for her children. She had been laid...
Funny Papers Again Column | Broken Ground Does Not a Groundbreaking Make
While not referring to any particular county supervisor in last weekās Funny Papers, I did address the board in general with hopes some public remarks would be forthcoming regarding the continued closure of San Lorenzo Park. I now want to address some specific remarks...
Letter to the Editor | No Indoor Dining, Not Yet
To the Editor:
At the schools, we feed our students breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks and dinner. If it is not safe at McDonaldās, Burger King, Taco Bell and Carlās Jr. here in Greenfield and other cities in the county, then it is not safe in...
Window on the World Column | The Next Book
There are many things that drive me crazy about this country; but the lack of opportunity is not one of them. I have always known that I can do whatever I want to do here, when I set my mind to it.
Years ago, I...
Worthy to Print Column | Sailing the High Seas
I believe it is time to take a few days off and take a trip. I canāt even tell you the last time I went to town, much less a trip of more than one day. I go downtown to Gonzales just about every...
Window on the World Column | A Letter to My Sister ā Part I
āYouāre here.ā I hear your whisper. It comes down on a wisp of wind from the mountains above your home. Where your shell now lies still, and your spirit is at peace. Once listless and always searching, you finally slowed your quest to live...
Worthy to Print Column: Halloween Fun
We have been living through some perilous times. I have heard from my relatives, my friends and even some neighbors. Things are not as they should be. Maybe this election will change us for the better. Maybe they will have a vaccine for this...


















