Guest Column | A Call to Action for Heart Health
Every February, the nation comes together to recognize American Heart Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about heart disease.Ā
Itās essential to be aware that even though heart disease is a significant health issue across America, many heart-related illnesses are preventable. Risk factors for...
Worthy to Print Column | Deadlines and Dinners
Did you find something different in your mailbox this past weekend? By different I mean something that wasnāt there. By something that wasnāt there, I mean my weekly scribbling. I have to tell you that it was all my fault.
You see, like all newspapers,...
Funny Papers Again Column | Some Rants and Raves Both Good and Bad
I often tell people how difficult it can be to put 1,000 words together every week with the expectation those words will somehow make sense and in so doing entertain readers for a few minutes. I tell people this because it is easy to...
Guest Column | Vaccines: Every Day Matters
Itās been a cold, dark year. But now, after a global pandemic brought unthinkable trauma and heartache, Covid-19 vaccines represent a bright, warm ray of sunshine ā more than a glimmer of hope.
The entire team at Mee Memorial Healthcare System is excited to witness...
Worthy to Print Column: Always darkest before the dawn
I had to go to South San Francisco on business yesterday. It was really hot while I was up there. Not something I have seen often. Usually there is a breeze off the ocean where my customer has his plant. But it was missing...
Funny Papers Again Column | Random Musings From the Past to the Present
A friend on an errand was heading up to Greenfield the other day and asked if Iād like to tag along, and because the town had been on my mind of late, I readily took her up on the offer. I was feeling a...
Funny Papers Again Column | Travels With Buddy ā Part I
In a rare case of a column running too long, I offer this story as a two-parterā¦
One day I came home from school, it was 1964 and I was in the sixth grade in Greenfield Elementary School, and my father handed me a book...
Worthy to Print Column | And So It Continuesā¦
I want to take a moment of your time to tell you how much I have enjoyed writing of my life and my thoughts. I guess there are many reasons a person would do this. I was not sure if anyone would care about...
Local News
CDCR officials investigating Salinas ValleyĀ State Prison inmateās Jan. 29 death as...
SOLEDAD ā California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the Jan. 29 death of an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) in Soledad as a homicide.
At about...























