Guest Column | Goodwill Central Coast to Give Away Hundreds of Backpacks to Local Students
Goodwillās goal has always been to strengthen communities by eliminating barriers to opportunity and employment ā and education has long been the foundation of those efforts.
Thatās why Goodwill Central Coast does everything it can to support local schools and the amazing teachers who lead...
Worthy to Print Column | Will You Be Mine?
Aahhhh February! This has to be one of my favorite months. For a month that only has 28 or 29 days, there are a lot of days that we celebrate this month. Of course, we have Valentineās Day. This is the day Saint Valentinus...
Window on the World Column | Amazing Grace
I first met Lori Tuttle by chance ā is anything actually by chance ā at a craft vendor fair on Highway 68. She had a lovely stall of repurposed goods with a cowboy touch that she had lovingly restored. I was selling my books....
Worthy to Print Column: Weāre All in This Together
What in the world is going on with our government? You have a guy that was videoed threatening to use his power to hold up aid to a foreign countryās aid, then getting millions of dollars transferred to his son and brother actually trading...
Letter to the Editor: Drive-in Movies a Success for King City
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Funny Papers Again Column | Enough ā Let Judgments and Flood Waters Recede
As a last look at this yearās storms, I mention that social media users have leveled harsh criticism toward the many people who either blatantly disregarded signs or misjudged flood conditions that required rescue operations; some of these incidents resulted in death. To such...
Letter to the Editor | King Cityās 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 Cityās Stanton Auditorium featured as one of only four examples of āLate Decoā architecture.
Like so many things, you can...
Funny Papers Again Column | A New Year Brings No New Understanding
It is never easy to come up with the words for this column; there are so many issues and topics that one can become so overwhelmed trying to find one or two subjects to write about that the end result is writerās block. Happens...
Window on the World Column | Grandmas Return to Vegas
This had been a long time in the making. The last time we did āGrandmas Gone Wildā in Vegas was only just post-pandemic and things were a little different back then. Iām not what you would call a gambler, per se, but I do...
Window on the World Column | Late for It All
I donāt know what happened. We skipped through Halloween, enjoyed a nice, peaceful Thanksgiving and then all heck broke loose. I took an early Christmas delivery to my dad and sister overseas ā and how organized was I! Even had the holiday gift bags...




















