Posts published in “Valley People”

DOUG JOHNSON (Philo Potter): If you would like to make a donation and cannot come to Pepperwood Pottery in person, simply mail a check or money order directly and payable to: Terese Brendlen P.O. Box…

WOULDN'T ordinarily risk boring you, but for the first time in my apparently endless life, I'm dreaming vivid dreams, so vivid I remember them at wake up time. Must be the cancer meds, but two…

AT LEAST 40 CANADA GEESE were hanging out on the runway at Boonville International last week. BILL KIMBERLIN: Indian Creek Bridge as it led into Philo. I am betting that there were lots of fish…

NEIL KEPHART HAS DIED. My friend and neighbor for many years, Neil Kephart, after a long battle with the stomach cancer that finally carried him off, will be sorely missed by everyone who knew this…

BOB VAUGHN, popular long-time valley resident and KZYX programmer has died. Correctly described by long-time KZYX programmer Karen Ottoboni as “committed and passionate,” Vaughn often lived hand to mouth, sometimes homeless, but was always upbeat…

RENEE LEE: Dear Lambert Lane pedestrians: I know ya’ll aren’t used to stop lights in Boonville and all but when the light is red, that means you too. Believe me, I walk it every evening…

WE WERE SHOCKED and saddened to learn that Jim Shields had died. The long-time publisher and editor of the Laytonville-based Mendocino County Observer, Jim was a good friend and colleague whose first-rate reporting on County…