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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 months as I am spending time for growing some pot.…

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 the Mendocino County Republican Party, Kenny Rogers in Rogers’ recent…

Spy Rock Memories

My first trip up Spy Rock Road must have been late in the summer of 1980. My brother-in-common-law had bought a place at the top of the ridge just below the Iron Peak lookout tower,…

Art Center Board Stonewalls Critics

An overflow crowd packed the main gallery of the Mendocino Art Center for last Wednesday after­noon’s highly anticipated Board meeting. Board President Brandt Stickel said that each speaker would have four minutes each to address…

Panther Soccer 2009

Last Wednesday (10/21) the Point Arena Pirates were visitors to the Valley and AV hoped to make up for their poor performance on the coast a couple of weeks ago — a game the Panthers…

Secure in San Francisco

Part of my daily exercise ritual, aside from watching TV and spying on the neighbors, is to hurl myself up and down a steep hill overlooking San Francisco Bay. The majority of my days are…

Farm To Farm

There it was, ten o'clock on a Saturday morning. A Toyota truck with the camper shell pulled into the parking lot next to the rusty hay baler that still has not been tucked under a…

La Familia In Boonville?

The Mexican drug cartel La Familia went down last week, big time, with kingpins arrested in 19 states and 750 pounds of meth seized and Michoacan, the birthplace of most Mendocino County immigrants, much in…

Alphonse Riede

Alphonse Joseph Hingel Riede, born April 10, 1930 in Toronto, Ontario, the only child of Katharine (nee Hingel) and Alphons Riede. Alphons died peacefully after a long illness in Mendocino Coast Dis­trict Hospital. He was…

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