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Leaf Us Alone

Joy Greenfield, the victim of the Covelo DEA raid, was recently at my river garden for a joint interview with a French reporter. For show and tell, I pulled out my uncomplicated hand-crank wheat grass…

Flying To Eugene, A Short Story

Chris Jones, now a resident of Eugene, Oregon, says hello to all his friends, and is especially grateful to Morgan Baynham for Morgan's recent letter and gift, both of which I hand-delivered to CJ on…

Off the Record

ANNE MOLGAARD of the cigarette tax-funded First Five umbrella Do-Good organization, got off a completely unfounded memo earlier this week that has everyone who's seen it shaking their heads. “Dear Commissioners: I hesitate to tell…

Valley People

CHARMIAN, like Cher and Madonna, achieved single-name renown on the Northcoast partly, perhaps, because her column in this publication seemed an anomaly, a little old lady writing little old lady prose in a weekly newspaper,…

Letters to the Editor

DEFENDING WALLIS Editor, This is my rebuttal to Bruce McEwen. I asked Mark Scaramella if he were going to publish it, he thought 'yes.' It was emailed it late Sunday August 23rd. The following week…

Panther Soccer 2010

The soccer program’s ‘road trip’ of six-games in 15 days that has opened our season continued last week with a visit to chilly Tomales on Wednesday, Sept 8th. Well, not quite. As the coaches were…

Summertime Spectacles

It was a warm and wonderful summer that ended last week with the Labor Day holiday. I usually avoid sum­mertime extravaganzas big enough to require one to park on grass and get on a bus,…

Sports Notes

Last week I wrote that Nate Davis was the most physi­cally gifted young QB in the entire NFL and that it would be a blunder for the 49ers to cut him before he had a…

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