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Valley People 2/3/2010

 UNCONFIRMED reports say the Boonville Brewery is in escrow, with the sale valued somewhere between $7 and $10 million. The Boont brews were first concocted in downtown Boonville in the middle 1980s by Ken Allen…

Off the Record 2/3/2010

This Week: Marvin Trotter, Congressman Wine Guy, The Walmart of Weed, an MTA boondoggle and much more...

An Odd New Gallery

Tucked away, up a narrow staircase above Tangents--on the corner of Main and Laurel in Fort Bragg--sits Odd Hours, an art gallery and studio space run by local artists Jason Cowan and Inga Petersen. “How…

The Hydroponics Monopoly & Medical Marijuana

Today, the American hydroponics industry is a rapidly growing, half-billion-dollar a year economic segment that is currently going through an important, wrenching, and necessary evolution.

Gluten-free, Loves Rabbits, Plays with Knives.

Jacob Hewko is gluten-free--but he's also one of the Mendocino Coast’s most talented and provocative young artists, breathing fresh life into the local art scene and creating images on paper that rival your most bizarre…

Letters to the Editor 1/27/2010

AB WATCH GOES GLOCK AVA: She's full of duty! I hope Ms. Woolsey will be issued her very own uniform, badge, radio, and Glock 40 with an autograph from Governor Schwarzenegger. She can then look…

Jail Mail

Editor, A blessing in disguise! Do I have any friends? I’d like to know. / Because the friends that I have they hurt me so. They lie and steal, they stab me in the back.…

Mendo Media

My uncle, the late 5th District Supervisor Joe Scaramella, was an avid reader all his life. He described the county’s media during his tour in office in the 50s and 60s as “mostly duplicative and…

Facebook & Football

Due to the modern miracle (or curse) that is the Internet, and due to one of its miraculous (or demonic) offshoots, Facebook, an invention which allows people to broadcast their deepest feelings minute-by-minute to friends,…

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