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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…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Congratulations to the organizers of ‘The Not-So-Simple Living Fair’ for their excellent job this past weekend at the event held in Boonville.…

‘You May Be a Task Force, But … We’re A Nation’

Since 1775, when the Spanish vessels Santiago and Sonora anchored in Trinidad Bay, the surviving Ameri­can Indian nations of California's northcoast have with­stood violent conquest, systematic land expropriation, kidnapping and forced indoctrination of their children…

Off the Record

This week: A shootout in Gualala, a mutiny at the Board of Supervisors, Oliver Stone goes South of the Border and much more

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