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April 12, 2026

Funny Papers Again Column | KCHS Swag and Cringe: Kudos and Calamity

What? You don’t know the present use of the words ā€œswagā€ and ā€œcringeā€? Well, I didn’t either until I read it in context in an article in the newest issue of The Mustang Legacy, the King City High School student publication. At the present...

Worthy to Print Column | Bringing Our Troops Home

I haven’t tried to hide the fact that I have no admiration for our present President. I could just sit here and write down all the ways he has let us down as a nation. However, I’m not going to do that today because...

Window on the World Column | Real Estate and Life

There are few guarantees in life. One thing you can count on, however, is change. Constant change. I equate real estate with life. It’s always up and down, forever moving, seldom boring. I have now been working in California real estate for 20 years,...

Funny Papers Again Column | I Know Who You Are, But What Is Your Name?

Steve Wilson
It is a fact that as the human body ages, noticeable changes take place on those parts that are visible, as accumulated years show on our bones and skin and teeth and hair. We who are over and above three score years are fully...

Funny Papers Again Column | A House Divided … You Know the Rest

Most historians cite the Battle of Bear Valley in 1924, a confrontation between the U.S. Army and Apache warriors, as the last battle fought on American soil. Our nation was born in The Revolutionary War and withstood wars of varying lengths: The War of...

Worthy to Print Column | A Time for Reflection

I know we have a few more weeks to go, but I have to write when I have a thought or the week is lost. I thought this might be a good chance to discuss the season and some of the things that make...

Funny Papers Again Column | Tis the Time to Gather and Remember

The body politic of a school campus is known as the student union, so it follows that when a class graduates from the institution, those students are no longer part of the union. There is a tradition within societies that members of a particular...

Funny Papers Again Column | Face It, It’s a Lousy Book

Steve Wilson
Time passes, locales change, friends come and go. We all experience changes, we graduate high school, some go on to college before joining ā€œthe working worldā€ while others set straight in to building a life, and so begins the diaspora of those we knew...

Worthy to Print Column | ā€˜Cheers’ to Kindness

ā€œMaking your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got, taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go, where everybody knows your name, and they are always glad...

Window on the World Column | On the Circuit

I’ve been on the tour circuit these past couple weeks. Not like a rock star tour circuit, but a circuit of sorts. For those of you who know me, you know I’m a writer not a speaker, so this concept has been a little...

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Monterey County Sheriff’s Office investigating suspicious death in Ventana Wilderness

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a suspicious death in the Sykes Hot Springs area of the Ventana Wilderness in the...