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July 15, 2026

Window on the World Column | My Beloved Rufus

Lucy Jensen
As us animal folk well know, there are frequent pleas from our local shelter for help with fostering and adoptions. There are always too many innocent creatures looking for a soft place to land. ā€œHelp, help, help … code red … out of time...

Window on the World Column: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

ā€œI shall not pass this way again. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or...

Worthy to Print Column | Another Year Older

Well, I made it another year. Last Sunday was my birthday. Yeah, I made it another year. I am not a fan of celebrations about birthdays, at least at my age, but truly I love the day for the way folks say nice things...

Letters to the Editor | Published Sept. 26, 2018

Editor's Note: We welcome Letters to the EditorĀ 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...

Letters to the Editor | Published Feb. 5, 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...

Window on the World Column | Slow It All Down

Lucy Jensen
There’s nothing like a little bit of Christmas in the shops in October to make you go … ā€œummm what?ā€ The pumpkins have not even got boring yet and here we are ho-hoing our ways towards the end of December. I don’t want to...

Worthy to Print Column | Goin’ to the Dogs

ā€œHoney, did you forget to write your column?ā€ She uses the tone of voice that brings me back to earth from my revere. I had been sitting here staring at the blinking reminder that I wasn’t doing what I knew I had to do....

Window on the World Column: Waving across the valley

I cannot remember the first time I met her and her lovely husband. It seems to me that we were friends from the minute I arrived in the valley about 19 years now, so it was a good while ago; and likely at a...

Letters to the Editor for Week of May 31

South County Newspapers welcome Letters to the Editor of fewer than 400 words. Submit all letters with the writer's name and contact information to [email protected].

Funny Papers Again Column | A Mile a Minute Will Get You There

Steve Wilson
Many moons ago on Highway 101 just north of Greenfield there was an odometer check. This consisted of four signs, the first starting a few hundred yards shy of Hudson Road, marked Mile 0, Mile 1, Mile 2, Mile 3 and finally Mile 4....

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Salinas Valley Police Reports | Published July 8, 2026

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments. KING CITY May 285:17 a.m. Grand Theft on Windsor Ct.7:59 a.m. Citation (broken brake lights) on S....