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July 25, 2025

Tag: Opinion

Worthy to Print Column | Happy Birthday, Jack

Everyone can put away their fur coats, wax your skis and polish up their convertibles. It appears that we may have beat away the...

Window on the World Column | Traveling Post-Covid

I cannot deny that the last several months have been a bit special for the small traveling public of which I was a member....

Funny Papers Again Column | Travels With Buddy — Part II

If I thought that it happened to be just the occasion and just the right type of youthful Big Sur denizens (that’s where the...

Worthy to Print Column | Living in a Family Town

You know I have had a few folks ask me why I live in Gonzales. Let’s see… it couldn’t be the night life. Oh...

Window on the World Column | Old Men and Dogs

The end of life is a funny old time, isn’t it. Not that we really know when that is. But, as your muzzle gets...

Letter to the Editor | Questions Remain on Deadly Pesticide Use

To the Editor: On Cesar Chavez Day, March 31, during National Farmworker Awareness Week, I pause to appreciate his commitment and historical accomplishments. Meanwhile, many...

Funny Papers Again Column | Travels With Buddy — Part I

In a rare case of a column running too long, I offer this story as a two-parter… One day I came home from school, it...

Worthy to Print Column | Get On Your Horse

I want to write today to speak to you about what I have been thinking as this old world of ours starts spinning out...

Window on the World Column | The Foxy Lover

He became quite the character of sorts, a fixture on the rather rough and tumble Nestles Road in Soledad, surrounded by rough ground and...

Letter to the Editor | Lauding the Landfill

To the Editor: Last week’s paper contained a letter detailing one way in which government agencies have failed (ā€œNo Happy Ending for Bridge Plaque,ā€ March...

Local News

Soledad Benefit Fitness

Benefit Fitness in Soledad kicks off 20th year with fundraiser for...

SOLEDAD — Benefit Fitness celebrated the kick-off of its 20th year of business on June 28, featuring a fundraiser for South County Animal Rescue...