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 (“No Happy Ending for Bridge Plaque,” 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
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...
