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Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Arline Bloom

I met with Arline at her home on Highway 128 in Boonville. It was a hot day and so the peaches and fresh water were perfect as we sat down to talk at the dining…

Panther Soccer 2012

The 2012 season had started well with three consecutive road wins. Last Wednesday afternoon the team opened league play with their first home game against the Broncos from Geyserville, a team from the ‘B’ Division…

Justice In Intoxicant County

The Mendocino County Courthouse here in California's intoxicants capitol was packed last Wednesday with low-level miscreants whose use or misuse of mind-altering substances had landed them in court. It's striking how many casualties of the…

Rock-O-Plane

It was the Boonville Fair. It was always the fair, scene of so many crimes and misdemeanors, of joys and neon sorrows. The Mendocino County Apple Fair and Rodeo was, in my time, Boonville’s small-town…

River Views

On Labor Day the Albion River moved at less than a trickle. Gravel covered much of the riverbed and the tiny flow of water could be dammed to a halt with a few kicks of…

Off The Record

TWO WEEKS AGO, as the North Pass Fire raged northeast of Covelo, CalFire received a frantic call from “a non-English speaking male” who said he was about to be consumed by fast moving flames. The…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I hope your Labor Day weekend was enjoyable and, while it symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans, and is celebrated…

Moving Forward By Standing Still

Described by at least one County insider as “a looming trainwreck,” the trainwreck himself loomed up Tuesday before the Supervisors. He's newly hired Retirement Board Administrator and former Orange County Sheriff’s Sergeant Richard White, informally…

Off The Record

THE BASSLER MATTER continues to create an undercurrent of vague recriminations. Bassler, you will certainly recall, was the young Fort Bragg mountain man who shot and killed Matt Coleman and Jere Melo in the fall…

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