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July 29, 2026

Tag: Opinion

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...

Window on the World Column | No Doubting the Universe

“No doubt the universe will unfold as it should,” I tell my husband (sort of citing my favorite poem “Desiderata”). This was after we...

Funny Papers Again Column | Donate Yourself and Be a Volunteer

The definition of the word “volunteer,” according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, is a person who does a job without being paid for...

Local News

Communication Board

South Monterey County parks add communication boards

SALINAS VALLEY — Community leaders gathered last week at Soledad’s Orchard Lane Park to celebrate the installation of new Inclusive Communication Boards in parks...