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Panther Soccer 2012

As reported last week, the 2012 high school boys’ soccer season ended in the “ultimate victory” for Anderson Valley — the post season Championship. However, as regular fans/readers will be well aware, it was a…

Election Notes, Mendocino County

Fleeting impressions. As usual, most people lost, and, as usual, almost half those eligible to vote didn't bother. Obama and Romney spent about six billion dollars raised from wealthy individuals and wealthy individuals organized as…

Looking Back, Part 5

My 2nd grade year in Mrs. Hickey’s class (the only one of my first four years in school during which my mother did not teach the same grade that I was attending) was no more…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. This month’s Birthday Greetings go out to Jeanne Nickless, Shirley Harris, Judy Long, David Kooyers, Cheryl Rajeski, Gerald Bowers, Peter Kayd, John…

Campeones!

On a sunny but cool Wednesday afternoon, the AV High Schodol boys’ soccer team hosted the semi-final of the play-offs in which they faced the Warriors of Fremont Christian in front of a raucous crowd…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: David Jackness

I met with David on Anderson Valley Way where he lives with life-partner Regine Schwenter. We enjoyed a refreshing cup of tea and sat down to chat. David was born in 1941 in New York…

A Bumper Crop Of New Pot Laws

Like corn in Iowa or potatoes in Idaho, the price of certain key crops indicate the economic health of a region. For better or worse, the crop that fuels the financial engine of the Emerald…

The Eel River’s Salmon Surge

The Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) has documented what it calls “the salmon run of a lifetime” in the lower Eel River, counting over 10,000 Chinook salmon drawn upstream as rainfall boosted flows. About 5,000…

Press Democrat Used Car Lot

Last January, the sniffy New York Times sold the Santa Rosa Press Democrat to down-home Halifax Media for $143 million. Now we suddenly learn that Halifax has unloaded the PD to a group of local…

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