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Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Harold Perry

A week or so ago, I met with the Valley’s second old­est citizen, Harold Perry, at his home in downtown Boonville. We were joined by his daughter Linda, who sat in on our discussion to…

Hiding Out With Joanne Kyger, Poet Of West Marin

“…the thousand-year sigh in Joanne Kyger’s genius!” — Ed Sanders, “Ode to the Beat Generation”, 2008 Specially For your eyes If you make it this far you are fairly out of danger because now you…

Off the Record

LAST WEEK'S COVELO pot sweep netted more outsiders than Covelo people at modest grow sites. Included in the lengthy roster of arrests were a German national; two Vietnamese; a Laotian; a couple of dudes from…

Book ‘Em, Clown-O!

With the film crews from National Geographic buzzing around in Mendoland last week doing a documentary on the local drug war, all the big shots at the courthouse were scrambling to get themselves in the…

Sheriff’s Log

9/20 10:08pm A man in one vehicle was following a woman in another as both raced down Highway 128 in what seemed to be a motorized domestic dispute. 9/20 9:56am An area off deep Mountain…

The Bear Lady of Laytonville

The 400-pound black bear waddled off the front deck of Lynn Gravier’s hillside home in Mendocino County and ambled toward the kindhearted woman who, until recently, fed him every day of his life.

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…

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