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Off The Record

This Week: Return to Jonestown & the Bari Bombing; a Westport weed battle; Aanestad & the KZYX nambo-pambos; and much more

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. “No power in Boonville” was the miserable word around the Valley last Sunday morning. Following the heavy storms of Saturday night/Sunday morning,…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Kelly Hiatt

I met with Kelley in her classroom at the High School where she has worked full-time as a teacher’s aid in the Special Education Department for the past twenty-five years. She made a lovely cup…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 4

As soon as you give something a name, it begins to die, says an old Chinese proverb, and its corollary might be that as soon as you get comfortable somewhere, things start going wrong. I…

Bosco: The Curse That Keeps On Giving

In the more than a third of a century since Douglas H. Bosco first carved himself out as a fixture of the California North Coast's power structure, one of the surest guides to locating systemic…

How I Met The KZYX News Department

KZYX is advertising for a news director. Paul Hanson has resigned. I hope Hanson's departure wasn't inspired by an odd few hours two weeks ago that began with Hanson's visit to our office. Here's what…

One Last Hug

After he's done maybe ten years in the state pen for voluntary manslaughter, the otherwise law-abiding Samuel Campos will be deported to Mexico. Campos might have happily lived out his days here in Gringolandia if…

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