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June 17, 2025

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Funny Papers Again Column | Four States, Four Days: There and...

Gambling casinos are sad places. That is the conclusion I have come to after walking through a couple of them yesterday. As I write...

Worthy to Print Column | Tired of Getting Older

I just got back from my monthly trip to Home Depot. I can’t go more often because I buy things that require me to...

Funny Papers Again Column | Sights I’ve Seen at ā€˜the Sites’:...

This week’s issue of the Valley newspapers hits the stands three days from Sept. 11, 2021: the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on...

Worthy to Print Column | When I Grow Up

I guess we have heard enough about the terrible things that are happening in Afghanistan. We all know who is responsible. I know I...

Funny Papers Again Column | Can We Consider a Conscientious Crossing...

As I venture out mornings for a bike ride ā€˜round some favored routes, it is apparent that the young denizens of the village are...

Adventure Abounds Column | Saying Goodbye

It’s not often that reporters get a swan song, so I’m grateful for the opportunity to say goodbye. Dear reader, next issue will be...

Worthy to Print Column | History Is Repeating Itself

If you fail to study history, you are bound to repeat it. I don’t know where I read that. Maybe I didn’t, but it...

Window on the World Column | International Flying With Covid

It was supposed to be just a distant memory by now; an inconvenient blink in the eye of all our busy lives and exciting...

Funny Papers Again Column | This Whole Funny Papers Is...

I am an avid reader, but with limited scope. I don’t read any contemporary novels and don’t know most of the names I see...

Worthy to Print Column | We Are All We Have

When I was a very young man, I rode around with my dad as he went from field to field down in Santa Maria....

Local News

Monterey County Environmental Health Bureau launches data dashboard in response to...

MONTEREY COUNTY — A new GIS-based data dashboard is now online and available to the public to track where environmental testing and monitoring have...