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Off The Record

This Week: In the land of ganja and grapes, a harvest party; Peggy Lee at the Masonic Auditorium; Occupy Ukiah at WalMart; and much more

Valley People

A DRUNK, still not identified because he refuses to reveal his name, was driving a 2000 Dodge Dakota pickup truck he'd stolen in Fort Bragg when he and another vehicle were pulled over by a…

Letters To The Editor

OCCUPY OBAMA Editor, The Occupy Wall Street protest movement that emerged this summer in New York City as a public rebuke of corporate greed, fat-cat government bailouts, and the decimation of social programs is the…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 11

Udo died in the autumn of 1991. He’d been driving alone late at night, so no one ever knew exactly why or how his car wound up at the bottom of a ravine. The best,…

When J. Edgar Hoover Tapped My Phone

As a kid I listened on the radio to “The FBI in Peace and War.” My parents had listened during the mid 1930s to “G-Men.” FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover helped produce those programs and,…

Valley People

THE GOOD NEWS. Garrett Mezzanatto, three-sport star athlete at Anderson Valley High School, sustained an ugly-looking knee injury in the final football game of the year versus Point Arena. He's been on crutches ever since,…

Off The Record

This Week: Planning Director outta here; Peace & Freedom sues California; Amazon Warrior Goddess raids Ukiah Animal Control; and much more

Valley People

ED SLOTTE, high school basketball coach, is breathing easier this week. Last week he had exactly five guys out for the varsity, this week he's got seven, none of them named Garrett Mezzanatto, at 6'4”…

Off The Record

UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL Editor KC Meadows wrote in her “Commerce File” column last Wednesday: “Some folks in Hopland are already very alarmed at the prospect of a home for recovering alcoholic women taking over the…

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