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Valley People

THE DREADS LANDED. The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival packs them in every year, and Mendocino County's most happening venue, Boonville, radiated peace, love and…

Letters To The Editor

BYPASS: A MAJOR DISSERVICE Editor, "Papa, I want to play!" The first time my daughter said those words during our drive it was easy to…

Mendocino County Today: June 27, 2013

JUST IN FROM THE GUV'S OFFICE: Press release from the governor’s office below: After years of struggle, the US Supreme Court today has made same-sex…

Mendocino County Today: June 26, 2013

KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS. Black Bird Farm is still mostly known locally as Highland Ranch, ancestral home of the late Charmian Blattner, the Redwood Empire's longest-running…

Mendocino County Today: June 25, 2013

WILLITS POLICE are investigating the death of Danny Lawrason, 77, found dead in his home on East San Francisco Avenue on Sunday June 16th. A…

Mendocino County Today: June 24, 2013

RASTAFARIANS here, Rastafarians there, Rastafarians everywhere in Boonville this weekend. Overall impression is of shuffling, listless people, most of them young but enervated-seeming. Thanatoids. The…

Mendocino County Today: June 23, 2013

WHO SAYS we don't benefit from the casinos? The Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, with a committee comprised of local elected officials looking on, has…

Mendocino County Today: June 22, 2013

ABOUT 50 BYPASS PROTESTERS began to impede wick drain installation in a field (aka former wetland) along the northern end of the bypass construction zone…

Mendocino County Today: June 21, 2013

THE MENDOCINO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE has formally identified the victim of a shooting near a Spy Rock Road pot garden as Upper Lake resident Hugo…

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