Chris ‘Dead Dog’ Brennan is the former federal trapper in the North County. Boonville's Gary Johnson used to be the guy to call in the South County. The two of them were the guys you…
Posts published by “Bruce Anderson”
IN THE DELUGE of unhappy news this week was another airliner crash in Indonesia. The plane was flying from Jakarta to the Borneo city of Pontianak. Pontianak! In the year of living dangerously, 1965, I…
SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS by the Sheriff’s communications assistant drew the attention of KZYX’s Program Director Alicia Bales Friday morning: BALES: “There was a social media post this week. It appears that one of the contractors…
Say you walk into a Willits bar. John's place maybe. You order up a draft and start talking sports with the guy next to you. He does a monologue on his triumphant sports days at…
Shane McCarthy, Paul’s son, announced his father's death on Saturday: I don't know how to best post this, and truthfully, I wish more than anything I didn't have to. But I would rather you heard…
Q-Fever. Ever hear of it? Few people had until Guy Kephart got it. And the 48-year-old Boonville native and married father of three children got it big time. “I was so sick I seriously thought…
Daniel Jeans was born a slave in 1835 Missouri. After the Civil War he made his way to California and to the Anderson Valley, probably in the wake of families he'd known in Missouri when…
A stern visage, the picture of 19th century rectitude, looks down on passersby from a banner at the corner of McAllister and Larkin, fin de siècle San Francisco. The banner celebrates the adjacent law school,…