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Mendo’s Biggest Wine Country Corporations

“We have chosen as our first topic of discussion the reality of the business — cash. Everything we do eventually finds its way back to this common denominator. That is, cash in and cash out.…

Taking It To The Streets

Local judges are all getting a paid holiday for Labor Day, but the clerks and court reporters are not.

Off the Record

This Week: Lisa's sulcatas, Measure C, privatizing Mendo's trash and much more...

Margie Handley’s Neighborhood

Marge Handley, the prominent Willits heiress and Republican philanthropist, owns a modest new home in a struggling subdivision off East Hill Road in South Willits called Haehl Creek. Mrs. Handley, 70, can retreat to her…

Farm To Farm

Visiting various homesteads around the Valley, track­ing my kids around and what not, I'm seeing baskets of lemon cucumbers, tomatoes, even buckets of fresh eggs. Friends are trading hams, sausage, bacon. In the kitchens my…

Another Census Undercount

The US census recently finished its national popula­tion count leaving rural residents restless over fears of undercounting since the census data is used to determine how much a tax-paying community receives in federal funding. “In…

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