Theater Review | Stage Hands deliver humor and heart in latest play, ‘Calendar Girls’
Prepare yourselves for art! That’s the nearly naked — pardon me! — nearly nude truth about “Calendar Girls,” the Stage Hands’ newest production. Masters of the dinner show format, they’ve again hit it out of the park.
The play begins with a meeting of the...
Letter to the Editor | Keep King City Moving Forward by Supporting Measure T
To the Editor:
I have been a business owner in King City for decades. King City is my home, so I have an interest in seeing the community be the best it can be. We all want a safe, clean and attractive place to live...
Guest Column | King City’s Efforts to Address Youth Violence
A major priority of the City of King is to end youth violence. In 2016, a community task force developed the City’s Comprehensive Plan to End Youth violence. The plan was implemented in 2017 and shootings decreased from 64 during the period of 2015...
Funny Papers Again Column | Disunion, Union and Serenity
For the past few weeks I have been telling everyone I think cares to hear it that if they want to enjoy the Arroyo Seco River, they needed to do it posthaste, as that particular stream is going to die before the Fourth of...
Worthy to Print Column | Coming of Age
Are you getting any older? Do you often go into a room and forget what it was that called your name? How about sports? Do you still get as much out of running as you once did? I don’t mean playing a game, where...
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 writer’s block. Happens...
Guest Column | A Healthy Brain Requires a Proper Diet as Well as Physical and Mental Exercise
Brain health is a critical piece of our overall health. Our amazing (and still mysterious) brain underlies our ability to communicate, make decisions, problem-solve and live a productive and useful life.
At Mee Memorial Healthcare System, we will observe the 10th annual World Brain Day...
Guest Column | Goodwill Central Coast to Give Away Hundreds of Backpacks to Local Students
Goodwill’s goal has always been to strengthen communities by eliminating barriers to opportunity and employment — and education has long been the foundation of those efforts.
That’s why Goodwill Central Coast does everything it can to support local schools and the amazing teachers who lead...
Window on the World Column | Mapping to Cowboy Country
You cannot be in Idaho without thinking potato. For most of the uninformed world, that is its claim to fame. We noted on the map that husband’s tribe, The Blackfoot or Blackfeet tribe, had their own town of Blackfoot on our route and, not...
Window on the World Column | Some of Our Angels Have Four Paws
News changes so quickly in this fast-paced world of ours. Yesterday’s disasters are but a vague memory today for those of us lucky enough to not be a part of them.
We were headed to Chatsworth on the edge of LA to go and see...





















