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Tom Smith Dies

Tom Smith died late Monday afternoon at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa from the multiple injuries he'd suffered the previous Thursday in a collision on Highway 128. His passing has shocked the Anderson Valley. He…

Off the Record

This week: Laurel Krause & Kent State, peeing on a San Francisco sidewalk, the Daily Journal gets the numbers on the county's pension system and much more.

Letters to the Editor

CRUDE REMEDY Greetings Editor: Perhaps there is an immediate remedy (although not “politically correct”) to the countless gallons of “sweet, light crude” gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico from the British Petroleum…

Valley People

CANDIDATE for 5th District supervisor Jim Mastin and Mrs. Mastin pressed the flesh at the Lion's Club fund-raiser over the weekend, as did candidate for judge, Ann Moorman. Ms. Moorman was introduced around by local…

Letters to the Editor

BUSTS GONE NOWHERE Editor: Based on the anonymous inquiries that I've received challenging the assertions made in my May 12 AVA letter to the editor, I submit the following for the record: The thrust of…

Off the Record

This week: Dennis Boaz takes on four Mendo County superintendents who accused him of racism; 20-20 on Aaron Vargas; more porn talk concerning county officials; Comptche Catholics; and much more.

Valley People

TOM SMITH, Boonville soccer coach, after whom the high school's soccer pitch is named, was at the beach in Thailand in 2004 when the largest tsunami in human history roared ashore. Tom Smith survived it.…

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