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Window on the World Column: The Masked Truth

I had been looking forward to 2020. At Solace, we were going to be empty nesters for the first time ever, work seemed positive, we had lovely trips planned — places to go and people to see, both here and abroad. I’m not ordinarily...

Funny Papers Again Column | How I Later Became a Sooner

If I ever again contemplate air travel, it will only be because I have lost all sensibilities and am probably living in a room with rubber walls. The last time I flew in a jet airliner I vowed it would be just that, the...

Letter to the Editor | Students Need a Well-Rounded Education

To the Editor: I am currently a third-grade teacher at La Gloria Elementary School in the Gonzales Unified School District. I am writing this letter to express my sentiments with regards to our district as an educator, parent and advocate for the community and the...

Letters to the Editor | Published Jan. 29, 2020

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...

Worthy to Print Column: Wash Your Blues Away

I have a question for you. In all of history — or just to make it easier for you, let’s just say from the 1800s till today — what one invention was the most important invention to family life and especially the wife and...

Window on the World Column | You Are Not a Tree…

I saw this line on social media and I loved it so much. Too many people in the free world complain about where they live, banter on about what they don’t care for in that place — the politics, the weather, the terrain or...

Window on the World Column: Happy Mother’s Day

Gilroy’s early life started, well, in Gilroy. My friend and neighbor called me from the Gilroy shopping outlets and told me what she had found in the parking lot there. ā€œWell, bring him on home!ā€ I told her, as you do. A few years...

Letter to the Editor: Fallen comrades deserve more respect

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...

Letter to the Editor: Greenfield Coat Drive a Success

To the Editor: I would like to send a very big THANK YOU to everyone who donated coats for this year’s Coat Drive in Greenfield. There were at least 75 to 80 new and gently used coats donated along with different types of clothing to...

Worthy to Print Column | Our 50th State

George Worthy
This morning when I woke up I was feeling pretty good, all things being equal. For some reason as I lay there I kept remembering Lorraine’s father coming by my apartment and picking me up so I could help him clean a couple ofĀ ...

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Salinas Valley State Prison inmate gets life sentence for murdering fellow...

SOLEDAD — Salinas Valley State Prison inmate Jaime Demicio Romero, 32, was sentenced to serve a term of 45 years to life in prison,...