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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.…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Following my exploits at the Fair I will keep it relatively brief this week and so apart from these few quick Public…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Mike Reeves

I met with Mike at his home on Lambert Lane in Boonville last week and we each enjoyed a strong cup of good coffee as we sat down to chat. Mike was born in 1950…

Farm To Farm

The first mornings after the autumn equinox you really feel the shift in season on the west side of Ander­son Valley, with the redwood forests shedding cold drafts that under­mine whatever heat is in the…

Remembering Fetzer Clan Matriarch Kathleen Kohn Fetzer

I didn’t know Barney Fetzer, a lumber executive turned legendary wine entrepreneur. He had already died when I arrived in Mendocino County 25 years ago. But over the years I have had the privilege of…

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