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Valley People

THE BOONVILLE SALOON enjoyed a great holiday season, and proprietors Lisa and Marsha were particularly happy with their New Year celebrants. They said the bar was full of well-behaved people and they remain grateful to…

Off the Record

This week: Wife beaters in Ukiah, The Major's prediction, Congressman Corktop's war games and much more.

Valley People

GONE IN 2010 but not forgotten: Guido Pronsolino J. Robert ‘Bob’ Mathias Dustin Dilley Frances Sylvia Martin Dick Sand Thomas Charles ‘Tom’ Smith JoAnne Wyant Patricia ‘Pat’ (Noonan) Erickson Elwin Maxey Warren ‘Skip’ Harris Rosalie…

Letters to the Editor

THE EAST COAST BLIZZARD Editor, What a glorious, glorious old time blizzard! It is sooooo beautiful, and the plows can't keep up with the drifts. In returning from Manhattan, where I went to see the…

Movie Review: The Fighter

Hollywood produces frauds From lives that once had meat; No one in the know applauds Hollywood’s latest feat When it produces movies of Redemption. Triumph. Real love. * * * I like watching boxing like…

Propaganda Of Childhood

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.” — Cynthia Ozick

Letters to the Editor

ONLY FOUR SCOOPS To the Editor: On a rainy Friday afternoon (12.17.10) while on a short trip to the Yorkville area I observed a Mendocino County road maintenance crew sitting in a red Ford crew-cab…

Nowhere to Go But Up

Can anything be more dismal than prospects for any decent resolution of the Israel/Palestine issue? Seemingly not. The hopes of January, 2009, at the dawn of Obama’s presidency, are dead. Washington has now given up…

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