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December 17, 2025

Tag: Columnist

Worthy to Print Column | Making Memories

If you find the time to read my weekly scribbling, you know that I have a love affair with Gonzales. I really love this...

Funny Papers Again Column | The First Financial Footing for Those...

On a Monday evening nine days ago, I was one of many who participated in an event I consider the best thing we do...

Window on the World Column | Plenty of Room in Rescue

I was the co-founder of South County Animal Rescue (SCAR) back in January of 2016. At the time we were filling a large hole...

Worthy to Print Column | Gas vs. Electricity

Have you bought any gas lately? I was driving my car yesterday in Salinas when I thought I may as well get gas at...

Funny Papers Again Column | An Honorable Opportunity for Greenfield Students

I remember when the wall speaker above Mr. Spears desk made that squawking, scratchy noise it made just before a voice came over and...

Worthy to Print Column | The Emperor Has No Clothes

Well, hello there! Did you miss me last week? I hope so because I missed that I had to get a column written. Sometimes...

Funny Papers Again Column | To the Two NCs: Come Get...

This is notice to Ronna and Jaime: Hit me with your best shots; convince me with actions not words. In fact, now that I...

Window on the World Column | My First Impressions

I’ve been living in America for 35 years now. Almost to the day. There you have it. I am either very old — or...

Worthy to Print Column | Family Times and Traffic Woes

I have been working out of my house for the past few weeks, and like the promises of AT&T the entire internet has gotten...

Funny Papers Again Column | The Wild Winds Usher in Pyotr...

It was almost exactly one o’clock in the afternoon on the first day of April when the window blinds in the studio began to...

Local News

Monterey County Sheriff’s Office investigation

Deputy involved in shooting of suspect armed with rifle in Soledad

SOLEDAD — In the early morning hours of Dec. 16, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) deputies were dispatched to a report of a suspicious...