Opinion

Editor's Note: We welcome Letters to the Editor of local and general interest to our readers. Letters should be typed and include the writer’s first and last name, home address and phone number for verification. No anonymous letters will be printed. Letters may be edited...

I have before me a smattering of paper scraps with an odd accumulation of notes, which will, one hopes, render up a readable column. Also in front of me is the remnants of a very delicious barbecued chicken dinner offered up by King City...

Joanne's Got It: Column by Joanne Banuelos

They said it was going to be really fun being home alone-ish (I have dogs). They said I would be able to write and relax, read and re-fill my spiritual cup. In addition to working and ranching and trying to figure out everything myself,...

Local column by George Worthy

And so another week goes by. Are we getting close to our family members? Have the younger kids no longer wonder why Daddy is still at home? This is really getting old. One day we are “Sheltering in Place,” and the next minute we’re...

How are you doing? Still staying in the house? It’s getting a little old, don’t you think? I guess we just have to remember something that was told to me when I was elected to the council. We were in Sacramento for some classes...

Window on the World by Lucy Jensen

To the Editor: May 4, 2004, was the day our lives changed forever. That was the day we found our son, Ricky, murdered. Anyone who loved Ricky will never recover from that horrible day. His sons had to grow up without their father; Ricky’s brother and...