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Valley People 12/30/2009

OF ALL THE FILMS that will be shown at the forthcoming Anderson Valley Film Festival at the Philo Grange the weekend of January 29th to January 31st, don't miss Rivers of a Lost Coast, a documentary narrated by Tom Skerritt who played the Rev. Maclean in A River Runs Through It.

Letters to the Editor 12/23/2009

GREENHOUSE SUMMIT GAS Greetings Editor, Can anyone with some economic expertise inform me about how much (in round figures) gasoline, airplane fuel, energy, cop overtime,…

Christmas Lockdown

Editor, Holiday happiness to you all. We are all locked down here due to a murder of a prisoner. About, “The Death of Teddy Ballgame."…

From Florence to Low Gap

Editor, My trip from Florence, Arizona to Mendocino County Jail, and a few words on California prison overcrowding. I sent Mendocino County Jail a 1381…

The Calendar Girl Conspiracy

Marilyn Monroe once said, “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle.”…

Civil Rights & Wrongs In ‘The Golden State’

The legendary American abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed in the 1800s that "Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will." And thus…

Off the Record 12/23/2009

THE COUNTRY may be sliding into permanent Depression, but Mendocino County’s judges, already more numerous in relation to the County’s sparse population than they are…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 2

In my younger days I had a habit that I thought was amusing but which I imagine most people found very annoying. It consisted of…

Panther Basketball 2009

AV 58, Pacific Union 42 Last Tuesday the Panthers basketball teams saw action in the Napa Valley where they played the Pacific Union Falcons in…

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