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What Happened To The Southcoast’s Internet?

Several southcoast residents — including former Supervisor Norman de Vall — have written to us with questions about what happened to esplanade.us, the Gualala-based wireless internet services provider that abruptly shut down last week. It's…

Sergeant Mendoza: A Hero’s Welcome

Sergeant Manuel Mendoza-Valencia enjoyed a big welcome home and birthday party at the Apple Hall last Saturday. It has been six years since the young Boonville man was severely injured in Iraq by a roadside…

Lights Out Gang Member Bails

Garrett A. Bonner, 18 years old and up to his eyeballs in felonious mischief that could send him to state prison, came to court under guard Monday afternoon to see if he could get his…

Goldeneye: Anderson Valley’s Mercenary Vineyard?

If you want to mark a point-of-no-return in the Anderson Valley's transformation into a full-on satellite of the Napa-Sonoma industrial viticulture complex, as good a choice as any is Duckhorn Vineyards' takeover of three properties…

Off The Record

This Week: Humboldt's dingbat brigade, SoCo's wine juggernaut, Low Gap's remodeling plan and much more

Direct Action Against Caltrans Begins

Members of a newly-organized group have vowed to stop the Richardson Grove realignment project and they’ve carried out their first act of civil disobedience. Six protesters who linked themselves together in metal lockbox sleeves were…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: René Auberjonois

I met with René Murat Auberjonois (English pronunciation: oh-BUR-zhen-WAH) a week or so ago at his beautiful home with quite stunning Valley views from the foothills on Deer Meadow Road, east of Boonville. He kindly…

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