Guest Column | An Update on the Community Center Complex in Gonzales
Dear Gonzales Community: For years the community has wanted a facility that would allow for family and greater community celebrations, cultural and musical events. And now, after years of research and planning, a major new community complex that will offer a comprehensive set of...
Guest Column | As Supplies Thin, Price of Recycled Water Could Go UpĀ
As we all manage the implementation of our groundwater management sustainability plans in the next 15 years, there will be some hard choices that communities will need to make. Most of these will include financing various water supply solutions, such as resource projects, land...
Letter to the Editor | Trump Handled Tragedy All Wrong
To the Editor:
It is terrible what happened in the U.S. Capitol. Ever since Covid-19 started, President Trump didnāt take the correct ways to slow down the virus. Dr. Fauci always said to wear masks and shelter in place, but no one did that.
There...
Worthy to Print Column | You Are Never Alone
Have you read any good books lately? I have given up rating films as someone always has a different opinion. However, books are another thing. Iām always looking for good books. āTo Kill a Mocking Birdā or āThe Yearlingā are a couple of books...
Window on the World Column: Motherhood is Not for Wimps
How did my child just turn 26? It sometimes feels as if it was yesterday that she popped into the world. I recall so clearly the labor ā 24 hours and counting in all, before they cut her out of me (when initially I...
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 ā she had not been in the building in years ā commented...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Easy and Hard Way Ideas Come To Mind
āTelevision commercials are an assault upon the senses and an insult to intelligence.ā
The sentence appears quoted and italicized because I think it is a pretty good opening sentence. Opening sentences are important, as those first words of an author must grasp the readerās attention...
Worthy to Print Column | A Day in the Life of a Soldier ā Part I
The other day Lorraine and I were talking with a family friend about my column. The friend said she particularly liked the articles about the military, not because she served but because she had loved ones that had served in that little skirmish 10,000...
Saving and losing family pets once strays
Guest Commentary by Lourdes Villarreal, Greenfield Resident
Funny Papers Again Column | Crime and Punishment
For this weekās column I had a nice little piece forming about how to get on national television and make a fool of oneās self; based on personal experience, of course. But a situation arose right in front of my nose, or at least...
Local News
Salinas Valley Police Reports | Published Jan. 7, 2026
Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments.
KING CITY
Nov. 2711:14 p.m. Mental Health Crisis on N. 3rd St.
Nov. 282:30 p.m. Domestic Violence and...






















