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Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Loretta Houck

I met with Loretta one evening a couple of weeks ago at her new bookstore in the heart of Boonville  — Laughing Dog Books. A couple of customers stopped by but we were able to…

Farm To Farm

Her name is “Rohini.” I'm not too sure about the spelling. I never asked. I think she's in the neighborhood of four years old, a shorthorn cow that was given to me two years ago…

O, Laytonville!

“Hey,” my nephew said, “that place you used to live is in the newspaper.” And so it was; in a lengthy SF Weekly piece about the mishmash of conflicting regulations and practices regarding marijuana and…

Lake County Sheriff-Coroner Falls Under DHS Scrutiny

LAKEPORT-- Lake County Sheriff Rodney Mitchell is the subject of a Department of Homeland Security investigation resulting from his misuse of equipment purchased with the department's money. The report number is DHS100622015 and the Inves­tigation…

Mooney & Billings: Framed!

It was an unusually hot July day in San Francisco. There was a parade on that day in 1916 — a “Prepared­ness Day” parade organized by local Republican businessmen. It was intended to drum up…

Eco-Motion Stalled

The city of Fort Bragg was founded as a prison to hold local Native Americans. Though more than 150 years have passed, the city remains a prison, as elected leaders hold a lock and key…

Off the Record

This week: Ann Moorman & the end of the $99 club, Kendall Smith's ethics problem, Willits' mythical bypass and much more...

Left Hanging

Last week we left Bess Sanderson hanging at the County Jail. We thought she’d made bail. In fact, she’d hadn’t bailed. She was still hanging Wednesday morning, and she hung for over an hour waiting…

Log Rustler Sentenced

In the Summer of 1998 an enterprising fisherman and timber worker named David McCutcheon leased a bare acre of land from Ed Colombi Sr. The acre sat off Odom Lane about a mile north of…

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