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Taking Back the Mendocino Arts Center

The good news: Attorney Brandt Stickel has been removed as President of the Board of Directors of the Mendocino Art Center (subsequently resigning) and a…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Elwin Maxey

When I met with Elwin Maxey for lunch at The Boonville Lodge a couple of weeks ago, his granddaughter and caregiver, Dee Gowan, accompanied him.…

Judge Lehan Speaks

Note: Before I left my assignment at the Ten Mile Court in Fort Bragg I asked Judge Jonathan Lehan for an interview. The judge agreed…

Getting Away With Murder

It was a perfect early afternoon in May when a young Mexican couple saw the car under the overpass with the man holding a knife…

The Cold Case Desk

Here at Boonville’s cold case desk, the phone will ring and an anonymous someone will ask, “Do you remember the murder of…?” The caller seldom…

Guns, Germs & Steel

James Stephens, felon, up on charges that he was in possession of a .22 rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun, nar­rowly missed four more years…

Me? Guilty. Rogers: Not Guilty.

Dear Editor, Is Lady Justice really blind? I am an inmate in Mendocino County Jail. I have been reading your newspaper over the past few…

Who Killed Michael Peacock?

The Placer County Sheriff's department has been tight-lipped about the death of Michael Glen Pea­cock — the man who testified against the former chairman of…

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