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Lights Out Gang Visits Boonville

The big moon shone down on a cold and clear Anderson Valley last Thursday night to choruses of barking dogs and yipping coyotes celebrating the lunar clarity. About 10:30, just after Deputy Squires had gone…

John Ross: The Inspiration Lives On

John Ross, late of Mexico City and the world, was kind to me once. There’ve been many a John Ross, from Cherokee chief to Arctic explorer.  The name has done good service.  The John Ross…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Michael Hubbert

I met with Michael in the workshop at his home on Estate Drive on the outskirts of Boonville. He has been a professional instrument maker since 1980 until the present day. It was a sunny…

Welcome to Judge Moorman’s Traffic Court

The newly installed officers of the Mendocino County Courthouse are already on the job. They have to be because several judges are gone: Leonard LaCasse retired, Jonathan Lehan gave notice, Ron Brown got sick… and…

Memo of the Week

Bruce Anderson, plaintiff, versus Kendall Smith et al, defendants.

Off the Record

This Week: Obama in Tucson, Napoleon in America, cop gossip in Ukiah & much more

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Gene Herr

I met with Gene for our chat a week or so ago in the unofficial ‘meeting room’ upstairs in the Farrer Building in downtown Boonville. Eugenia ‘Gene’ Donnelly was born, in 1932, the youngest of…

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