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The Little Train That Can’t

Four environmental groups are preparing a lawsuit against the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) alleging that the agency is segmenting environmental review for redevelopment of its 316-mile rail line. The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC),…

Farm To Farm

July turned out to be one of the coldest of its kind on record — locally, especially in Anderson Valley. The air flow patterns raged in frigid breath from the Gulf of Alaska after one…

Off the Record

This week: The killing of Angel Hernandez by a Mendo sheriff, Santa Rosa's cops and prostitution stings, Covelo's 28th Annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival, a mother not to be reckoned with while drinking, and much more.

The Not So Simples

The last few acres of the American prairie with its soil-building native grasses went under the plow in 1984, making us forever beholden to Monsanto and Dow Chemical. The US Forest Service, chartered to preserve…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Charlie Hochberg

I met with Charlie at his home on top of the Holmes Ranch and after admiring his orchids, we sat down to talk with twenty-year-old Fritz the terrier and nine year old Woody not far…

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