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Posts published in March 2010

‘And You Pour Him A Beer?’

I caught hell Monday from the tribal women in court every day for the murder trial of Alva Sonny Reeves and Brandon Pinola. The picture we ran with last week's story was not Alva Reeves.…

Farm To Farm

“What we need to start doing,” somebody recently told me, “is start getting back to a bartering system. Get away from dependence on the dollar bill.” “Yeah,” I said, several times, finally picking up a…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: June Lemons

As the rain came pouring down I drove to the out­skirts of Boonville and met with June at her home on Ornbaun Road. She graciously offered me either a tuna or ham sandwich for lunch…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comforta­bly then I shall begin. Well, once again I attended both evenings of the annual Variety Show and, although I assume another roving reporter from the AVA…

It’s A Long Way To Tucumcari

A logical first stop for snowbirds returning from Arizona to the Upper Midwest is Tucumcari, New Mexico, a little town big enough for a McDonald’s but too small for a Walmart. Having put on 608…

Undercover Agents

A current controversial federal law allows product manufacturers to withhold the identity of untested chemicals from the public if the manufacturer has rea­son to believe that such public knowledge could harm business — and even…

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