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January 23, 2026

Tag: Opinion

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...

Funny Papers Again Column | You Meet the Darndest People in...

By my reckoning 140 years, give or take, of my family’s timeline was spent in prisons; the years accumulated by my parents, a brother...

Worthy to Print Column | Keep On Trucking

I’m sure that I have written often about my trusty old Ford pickup. It is an F-100 that I bought about a month after...

Funny Papers Again Column | Step Forward, Gentlemen, and Step Lively

I have set aside my regular column this week, a little story about me and my dog in Arroyo Seco, nicely told in my...

Letter to the Editor | No Happy Ending for Bridge Plaque

To the Editor: Once upon a time there was a farmer named John. He noticed the narrow bridge that connected Soledad to the Mission District...

Worthy to Print Column | Secrets and Confession

I’m going to tell you a secret. Oh, it’s nothing nefarious or secretive. It’s just something I decided to do a few years ago...

Local News

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Soledad adopts new five-year strategic plan to guide city priorities

SOLEDAD — City of Soledad has adopted a new citywide strategic plan designed to guide operations, budgeting and long-term decision-making over the next five...