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Peter Mugs Paul For Loose Change

How much local property tax money should be allocated to the administration of the Community Services District’s Recreation Committee, Teen Center, and Boonville International Airport?? For the last few years the Board of the only…

Time for a Real Mutiny

So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are…

Tiburcio Vasquez, Highway Robber

Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John Boessenecker, certainly among the most active highway robbers in America's…

Farm To Farm

Sunday morning there was a message on the answer­ing machine from a neighboring rancher who said he'd found a dead goat in the middle of the pasture. Also sev­eral of his heifers had jumped fence…

Sports Notes

LeGarrette Blount in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers run­ning back who helped to beat the San Francisco 49ers last Sunday. He also was the Oregon Ducks running back who punched the Boise State football player after…

Panther Soccer 2010

The wonderfully successful 2010 Soccer Season is over and all that remains for me to do is to inform you of the team’s individual awards and to express gratitude to our many supporters. At a…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And a Happy Thanksgiving to one and all for tomorrow! What a great day – “well done!” to whoever thought of it. This Mother-of-All national…

Attention Deficit Nonsense

“Tell the children the truth.” — Bob Marley 1957. Las Lomitas Elementary School. Menlo Park, California “I invite those people with ants in their pants,” pro­claimed Mrs. Davenport, my third grade teacher, “to run to…

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