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December 10, 2025

Window on the World Column: Enjoy the Journey

There’s a plaque leaning up against a tree in my front garden. It’s old and weathered; but the message remains solid — ā€œEnjoy the Journey.ā€ It will always live with me. It reminds me of my sister Rosie and her successful efforts to enjoy...

OPINION: There is freedom from fear

Local column by Joanne Banuelos

Funny Papers Again Column | A Long Look Back: A Senior’s Prerogative

Steve Wilson
For those of us with multiple decades behind us as we continue our personal journeys toward some inevitable end, it seems the compulsion increases to reminisce about the time known as the Holiday Season. Or maybe it is just me. How the marked days at...

Jake and Krysta

Worthy to Print by George Worthy

Funny Papers Again Column | KC Projects: One Moving, One Stalled

As some of you are aware, I had occasion to be in the Orradre Building down at the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds the other eve and one person in attendance at the affair — she had not been in the building in years — commented...

Council should reconsider joining MBCP

Guest Commentary by Domingo Uribe, King City Resident

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...

Guest Opinion: PBS’ ā€˜Frontline’ missed the mark about our agricultural industry

Last week, PBS’s news program ā€œFrontlineā€ aired an episode about Covid-19’s devastating impact on the lives and health of farmworkers in Monterey County and meat packers in Kings County. The stories, voices and fears of our farmworkers are certainly important and must be heard by all...

Worthy to Print Column | Getting Strong

As I begin this weekly addition to the greatest periodical in South Monterey County, I should warn you that some words might need explanation. OK, I can hear the mumbling. ā€œWhat is this wanna-be Hemingway talking about this week?ā€ That’s a fair question, so...

Funny Papers Again Column | America the Beautiful: From Sea to Shining Sea

Steve Wilson
As I get back into the swing of things here in South Valley, I want to offer up some random thoughts, or comments, garnered from notes taken over the past few weeks both here at home and on the road. The first observation is...

Local News

Vehicle with marijuana

Burglary at cannabis facility leads to vehicle pursuit, recovery of marijuana

SALINAS VALLEY — An in-progress burglary at a local greenhouse facility last week led to a multi-agency vehicle pursuit from Salinas to Gilroy and...