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Off the Record 3/31/2025

TOM YATES (The Coast): The current story in the Chronicle about the end of Dick’s Place is about one-quarter of what’s real. The news has been out there since at least January. It’s a lot…

Off the Record 3/25/2025

THE FOLLOWING appeared in my Facebook feed this morning: “My name is Galina [Trefil]. “For so many years now, I have lived a double life; carried an impossible secret. This is not a joke. This…

Off the Record 3/18/2025

WHEN PINCHES GOT A MUG When Supervisor John Pinches was on the Board of Supervisors he often complained about costly but limited fish habitat restoration projects that seemed to be spending more money per fish…

Off the Record 3/11/2025

SAD NEWS from a reader: I heard from a good source that Bill Heil died yesterday. He was at the center of Albion’s Table Mountain commune back in the day. Few know the past as…

Off the Record 3/3/2025

A FEW weeks ago, the cops and a platoon of rescuers were called out to look for an older woman who'd managed to get lost in Jackson State Forest while mushroom hunting. She was out…

Off The Record 2/25/2025

ADAM GASKA on reduced wine grape harvest: No shocker there. There are a lot of unpicked grapes. Lots of vines getting yanked, some vineyards getting mothballed for a season or two waiting to see what…

Off the Record 2/18/2025

AS THE LONGEST preliminary hearing in County history — 18 months and counting — takes a break because the judge and witness CEO Darcie Antle absolutely had to go on vacation, I stepped back through…

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