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Valley People (Mar 5, 2014)

MARCH MIRACLE, take two. Last year we got a nice late rain, and this year we got another one, a real trash mover as they say in Boontling that fell all day Monday, ceasing about…

Valley People (Feb 26, 2014)

RESIDENT DEPUTY CRAIG WALKER alerts locals to a couple of mail thefts in the Philo area. Inland areas of the County have been plagued by tweekers rifling roadside mail boxes.

Valley People (Feb 19, 2014)

FOR THE FIRST time since 1958, Shorty Adams is not behind the wheel of a Boonville school bus. Last week, without any announcement from the district, Shorty suddenly left the job he's held for 56…

Valley People (Feb 11, 2014)

SKY WATCHERS FROM VARIOUS areas of the County say an average of six inches of rain has fallen on our parched lands since Thursday.

Valley People (Feb 4, 2014)

The Moonies owned most of the place back in the early 1970s. It was then a single 640 acre ranch, or a big hunk of the even bigger Singley Ranch that ran east up into the hills from Highway 128.

Valley People (Jan 29, 2014)

TIM AND MICHELLE MULLINS of Balo Vineyards, Philo, have bought the Live Oak Building, paying $600,000 for the venerable structure, formerly owned by the Peterman family of Nash Mill Road.

Valley People (Jan 22, 2014)

THE CLOSING of Laughing Dogs Books is another body blow to the commercial life of central Boonville. Worse, it's a right to the jaw of our town's cultural life. You can also say it's a third blow to the tourism we are now so dependent on because Laughing Dogs' charming proprietor, Loretta Hauck, also functioned as the go-to person for many travelers-through, and so good at it it was almost as if she'd been specially selected for the task.

Valley People (Jan 15, 2014)

ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more. If we got a quarter inch Saturday we'd be surprised.…

Valley People (Jan 8, 2014)

THE NEW YEAR used to be celebrated in Boonville with gunfire and low intensity explosions commencing, it always seemed, at nightfall. No more. We're a pretty tame bunch anymore. The anarchic sectors of The Valley's…

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