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LAST WEEK'S COVELO pot sweep netted more outsiders than Covelo people at modest grow sites. Included in the lengthy roster of arrests were a German national; two Vietnamese; a Laotian; a couple of dudes from…

Book ‘Em, Clown-O!

With the film crews from National Geographic buzzing around in Mendoland last week doing a documentary on the local drug war, all the big shots at the courthouse were scrambling to get themselves in the…

Sheriff’s Log

9/20 10:08pm A man in one vehicle was following a woman in another as both raced down Highway 128 in what seemed to be a motorized domestic dispute. 9/20 9:56am An area off deep Mountain…

The Bear Lady of Laytonville

The 400-pound black bear waddled off the front deck of Lynn Gravier’s hillside home in Mendocino County and ambled toward the kindhearted woman who, until recently, fed him every day of his life.

Fair Play For Big Wine

If you entered the word “wine” into the Santa Rosa Press Democrat’s website search tool on September 30, 2010, you’d get 14,388 hits as of September 30, 2010. Here are a random selection of titles…

When Life Isn’t A Video Game

We live in a politically correct world. We don’t refer to people in derogatory terms anymore. We don’t call people eejits, and we are especially careful not to put these hurtful kinds of labels on…

Oversight Might Be Blind

Valley voters last year grudgingly passed a bond issue worth $15.25 million dollars to fix up our 50-year-old schools. The money does not come without stipulations as to how it might be disbursed. In theory.…

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