Opinion

This month, as leaves begin to fall and thoughts turn toward the holiday season, I want to renew our focus on prevention, wellness and healthy living for the South Monterey County community. October brings several major health awareness initiatives: Breast Cancer Awareness, Mental Health Awareness,...

California cannot afford to keep wasting opportunities to capture and store water when it’s available. Yet our outdated permitting system makes building essential water infrastructure unnecessarily slow, expensive and difficult. Consider Sites Reservoir, which would provide approximately 1.5 million acre-feet of additional water storage. Its...

The old saying “things are tough all over” certainly applies to present day King City. As a city, it could be said we became a victim of our own success. In the past dozen years, King City made huge advancements in cutting violent crime,...

Drive through the Salinas Valley this fall and you might not notice it from the highway, but artificial intelligence is already at work here. Automated weeders are moving down strawberry rows. Harvesting technology is being put to the test in celery fields. In the...

I’ve traveled a lot in my life. Thirty-eight years of going back and forth over the pond can make one a bit blasé about the process. Get the bus to San Fran (got my passport?), dump the bag, go through security, hang out, board...

Unfortunately, I never met my mother-in-law. Jean passed away just a couple of years before my husband and I met. I am sure we would have gotten along famously, though. Hearing stories about her that remind me so much of my own mom, Sharon,...

My oldest buddy on the planet Lizzie and I decided that, now we are living on the same land mass again, we must plan something fab every few months to get to know our adopted country a little better, plus enjoy ourselves a lot...

Today I want to touch on something, but I must tread lightly else I shoot myself in the foot and need care; which, appropriately, is the topic. These words are from a guest column in the Aug. 26 issue of the Rustler/Tribune: “Mee Memorial’s mission...

When you get to my rather mature years (60 is the new 30, apparently, especially when you have fake parts!), birthdays can come and go without any hoopla. Mostly what we/me would prefer is to be left alone for an entire day with a...

The Pinnacles Film Festival began with one film and a simple idea: give it a fitting screening. It grew because filmmakers, community partners and volunteers saw what was possible and helped bring it to life. Sol Treasures had become involved in “The Trees Whisper at...