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Posts published in April 2010

Mugged: Toward Maturity

It was one of my first visits to Northern California. Still in high school, I had wandered up thru Marin, Mendocino and Humboldt counties; I'd seen redwoods and the amazing rugged coast for the first…

Farm To Farm

According to the people who think the moon has some effect on the best time to put in seeds or do transplants, this last week was probably supposed to be a choice window to tuck…

Against Moses

Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, by Anthony Flint. Random House, New York, New York 2009. This fast-moving and gripping story, summed up in…

Valley People

SATURDAY NIGHT, Boonville gym, beginning at 6pm, three alumni basketball games, the greats of yesteryear, men and women, will return to the hardwood scene of their glories to take on the present-day Panthers and Panther-ettes…

John Dalton’s Revenge?

It was a little over a decade ago that John Dalton, formerly of Redwood Valley, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison

Three Card Monte

Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo told the Board of Supervisors last week that her office had considered several ways to make up the County’s $7.6 million deficit through June of 2011 – staff reductions, salary…

Seeds & Stems

Attorney E.D. Lerman got one guy off on two big felonies – cultivation in numbers beyond all medical reason and possession of marijuana for sale.

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