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April 16, 2026

Window on the World Column | Springtime Pouring and Sipping

Lucy Jensen
It’s that time of year again. At the end of a long, wet winter, we Californians are exhausted by the grey, the mud, the mess. We are tired of short days and rain and storms. Our bodies are depleted of vitamin D and our...

Guest Column | Gratitude Builds a Path Toward a Happier and Healthier Holiday

Each holiday season comes with high expectations for happy, carefree gatherings. It’s all too true, however, that once the calendar turns to November, feelings of sadness or anxiety can sometimes take hold. Beyond major depression or severe anxiety disorders (which require professional help), it’s common...

Worthy to Print | Home stretch

In just a few weeks, I’ll have to come up with a new excuse to keep from doing any chores around the house. I know you have heard this before, but this is my last semester (I hope) at school. The way it is...

Worthy to Print Column: It’s Just a Phone

Do you have a ā€œsmart phone?ā€ I’m not sure what makes a smart phone or a dumb phone, but I’m pretty sure I got the dumb one. I mean, I see folks walking around all day looking at their phones, and if the phones...

Window on the World Column | TAILS in Soledad — Part I

Lucy Jensen
Driving into the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad and you are reminded of how a secure institution can be. Acres of barren land, no trees, double high-wire fences, guard towers. And that’s how it should be, we know that. But head over to the...

Funny Papers Again Column | On the Road With Steven C. Wilson

Some years back, not so very many, I was prepared to say that I had done all the traveling my pocketbook would allow and I was content with that until in October of last year an opportunity arose, to wit: money. I had set...

Worthy to Print Column | And Then There Was One

George Worthy
So I’m sitting in my favorite chair lacing up my tennis shoes when the phone rings. I’m only a little concerned because Lorraine pays all the bills and she has not advised me that we are in trouble. I look at the phone only...

Worthy to Print Column | History Is Repeating Itself

If you fail to study history, you are bound to repeat it. I don’t know where I read that. Maybe I didn’t, but it sure seems appropriate to today. The senile guy that we have to call president has seen fit to replay the...

Window on the World Column | Bad Days, a New Book and Sailing Around the World

Lucy Jensen
It was simply one of those days. A wake-up call that didn’t involve coffee or soft music, let alone the sound of little birds singing to herald the dawning of a new day. ā€œThis is Bank of America. We have reason to believe that...

Worthy to Print Column | Make It Cool

I have been watching our local politicians as they try to govern the unruly County of Monterey. One week the county supervisors said they wanted to make everyone outside and in wear a mask to cut down on the rate of transmission of this...

Local News

Arroyo Seco River rescue

Body recovered after vehicle found in Arroyo Seco River

GREENFIELD — Authorities recovered the body of a man Monday after a vehicle was discovered partially submerged in the Arroyo Seco River west of...