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April 30, 2026

Letter to the Editor | King City’s Architectural Gem

To the Editor: Recently, I was reading the extensive Wikipedia Art Deco history website. In it, I was pleasantly surprised to see a photo of King City’s Stanton Auditorium featured as one of only four examples of ā€œLate Decoā€ architecture. Like so many things, you can...

Guest Column | Grateful for All the Memories

This sports edition is my last as a writer for New SV Media. Throughout the past 30 years I have been fortunate to have the best seat in the house for hundreds of high school and youth sporting events. While I will miss creating...

Funny Papers Again Column | 001, 249 AD; The Day I Ran Over My Ego With a Tractor

Steve Wilson
If the first part of above appears as random numerical gibberish at first reading, that is expected, let me explain. America, along with other nations, refer to the Gregorian calendar to mark our time and have done so for millennia. How the calendar we...

Guest Column | Eating Your Way Through the Produce Rainbow Brings Enormous Benefits

During the height of the pandemic, the United Nations shined a spotlight on the vital role of fresh fruits and vegetables in the health and future of the human race. ā€œAs Covid-19 continues to affect the health and livelihoods of people across the world, we...

Sometimes it can get pretty fun here

Local column by Joanne Banuelos

Window on the World Column | Opening Up the World

Two canceled flights and two Covid tests later, and it looked like the U.S. to U.K, flight might finally be happening. It would have to be via L.A. with a layover, but it beat the boat any day and I would take it. As...

Funny Papers Again Column | Hello Cousin… And Cousin… And Cousin…

My landlord/roommate here in King City has a book that details the genealogy of early families in South Monterey County. He is a cousin in the Grab-Eade-Bengard-Copley clan and that makes for a fair number of cousins at all levels: first, second, third and...

Funny Papers Again Column | A New, Bright Street and an Old, Dark Ballet

Steve Wilson
If I were to offer up a descriptive sentence regarding the city’s newly upgraded main thoroughfare, it would be peppered with adjectives leading to superlatives and culminating with comparatives; i.e. ā€œLike the revitalization seen in Old Town in Salinas, the City of King is...

Worthy to Print Column: They can do it

When I was a young man — oh, about 12 — I wondered why we even had to go to school. I got along with all my classmates and even liked my teacher, but on a day when the sun was out and the...

Funny Papers Again Column | Some Rants and Raves Both Good and Bad

Steve Wilson
I often tell people how difficult it can be to put 1,000 words together every week with the expectation those words will somehow make sense and in so doing entertain readers for a few minutes. I tell people this because it is easy to...
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