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DAVE BROADBENT, with his wife Barbara and son Clint at his bedside, passed away early Saturday morning at his home on the Holmes Ranch. Dave had been a heavy equipment operator for Caltrans and the...
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The Best & Worst: Mendocino County 2010!
• Ambulatory Stoner of the Year: Larry Nye, the only Mendocino County person arrested in 2010 for Driving Under Influence of Marijuana. • Petticoat Larcenist: Supervisor Kendall Smith for claiming...
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Anderson Valley, Tentacle Of The Wine Grape Octopus
Vineyards as far as the eye can see. Courtesy JimG944 via Flickr. “When at last the land, worn out, would refuse to yield, they would invest their money in something else; by then they would have all...
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Anderson Valley’s Black Site?
When nobility becomes the subject of baseless rumors, whispers give way to a roar of silence. Think about the poor, threadbare peasants cowering in the village in the shadow of Count Dracula’s...
View ArticleGoldeneye: Anderson Valley’s Mercenary Vineyard?
If you want to mark a point-of-no-return in the Anderson Valley’s transformation into a full-on satellite of the Napa-Sonoma industrial viticulture complex, as good a choice as any is Duckhorn...
View ArticleSergeant Mendoza: A Hero’s Welcome
Sergeant Manuel Mendoza-Valencia enjoyed a big welcome home and birthday party at the Apple Hall last Saturday. It has been six years since the young Boonville man was severely injured in Iraq by a...
View ArticleFarm To Farm
When my teenage son and I bounced from Boonville in the middle of January we were merely embarking on a visiting mission — a vacation, so far as we knew. For that reason we packed only our dogs and the...
View ArticleTwenty Years Old, Grange Variety Show The Best Ever
Jews harps, kazoos, and accordions. The county’s biggest oak dance floor and the world’s smallest cow. A Medicare-eligible woman hanging upside down from the ceiling and pre-pubescent divas with...
View ArticleLives & Times Of Valley Folks: Kelly Hiatt
I met with Kelley in her classroom at the High School where she has worked full-time as a teacher’s aid in the Special Education Department for the past twenty-five years. She made a lovely cup of tea...
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DEPUTY SQUIRES will be honored by the Sheriff’s Department as “Deputy of the Year” at the Elk’s Lodge, Ukiah, this Saturday night, an honor well-deserved and long overdue. PAUL MEILLEUR of Philo...
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A Suicide At The County Jail & A Correction
The headline on the front page of the Ukiah paper read: “Inmate Suicide A Local Transient.” We think of transients as non-local, but Lance Scholfield, 29, was local. Lance attended Boonville schools,...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, ‘The Turkey Vulture has landed’ as someone very famously once said. Yes, I’m back here in “paradise” after a very large...
View ArticleMemos Of The Week
Dear Deputy Walker: NOTICE OF LAYOFF — Due to continued funding problems, on May 24, 2011, the Board of Supervisors authorized the elimination of six deputy sheriffs positions in the sheriff’s office....
View ArticleEl Classico De Michoacan
Michoacan is the mostly rural Mexican State from which the vast majority of Hispanic people in this Valley originally hail from. They tell me that it is similar to Anderson Valley in many ways. As this...
View ArticleHendy Woods Should Not Be Closed
Kathy Bailey appeared before the Community Services District Board last week to urge the Board to help save Hendy Woods State Park from its scheduled closing early next year. Bailey, representing the...
View ArticleMarie, The Rest Of The Story
Old timers will remember Marie Helme, the mysterious older woman encased, rain or shine, in a black winter coat who we’d see gingerly making her way from the Mannix Building every afternoon to the...
View ArticleTindall’s Market
Tindall’s Market is now closed after almost 32 years in business in Boonville. It is hard to say just why we left the land but when we came back home in the fall of 1936 from our seven years near...
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If A Park Falls: Hendy Woods
This past week, NBC News showed a video of a 300 foot tall, 1500 year old Sequoia falling to earth in the Sequoia National Forest. Visitors to the park were stunned to see such a magnificent giant so...
View ArticleMy Days As Justice Of The Peace
Before the Judicial Council was voted in by the people of the State in California, the local judge was a Justice of the Peace and was known to the people as a J.P. He would be a local man elected to...
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THE EERILY unseasonable weather continues with cold, clear nights and warm, clear days as we nervously eye our water sources and wonder how long they can go without replenishment.Subscribe now to...
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