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The 1368

The kids were sitting next to their mother in the gal­lery when daddy shuffled in chained to some other pris­oners and the guard seated them in the dock. The little girl squealed, “Look Mum —…

A Brief History of the Sheriff’s Budget

Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent $900,000 more on over­time than he had in his budget.…

Off the Record

WILL PARRISH'S truly excellent series on the wine industry can be found in its entirety at www.theava.com. It's the first comprehensive investigation of the Northcoast's dominant enterprise (apart from marijuana, of course) from a critical…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Allan Green

I met with Allan at the Greenwood Ridge Vineyards tasting room on Hwy 128, a couple of miles north of Philo. Allan was born in Los Angeles in 1949 to parents Aaron Green and Jean…

The Sisterhood Circles The Wagons

When last we visited the $3,087 in untraveled travel reimbursements that Supervisor Kendall Smith lifted from the taxpayers of Mendocino County, The Sisterhood had already gone deep to confuse, delay, defend, and perpetually punt Smith's…

Treasure Hunt

When hand-held global positioning systems were first released to the general public, nobody but sailors knew quite what to do with the amazing new appliances. Sailors used them to find their exact positions at sea,…

Sheriff’s Log

11/7 12:45am A passerby said he'd seen a bloodied man standing on 128 near Navarro. When an officer arrived to check the man out there was indeed a 36 year old man standing by the…

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