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Posts published in June 2010

Memorial Day, The Sexton’s Tale

I went to see the sexton. The Abbott women at the Senior Center put me up to it — Gloria, her daughter Sharon and daughter-in-law, Shirley Hulbert — when I stopped to inquire how the…

Tom Smith Dies

Tom Smith died late Monday afternoon at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa from the multiple injuries he'd suffered the previous Thursday in a collision on Highway 128. His passing has shocked the Anderson Valley. He…

Ghosts Return to Haunt McCain & The US Press: Vietnam MIAs

The ghosts that haunt Senator John McCain are about 600 in number and right now they are mustering for an onslaught. McCain, one of America's foremost Republicans and President Barack Obama's opponent in 2008, is…

Who Will Take The Fifth?

Not me. I’m waiving my rights. Let's go out on a limb and predict the outcome of the Fifth District Supervisorial Race on Tuesday. The Fifth District -- those who vote anyway -- is at…

Off the Record

This week: Laurel Krause & Kent State, peeing on a San Francisco sidewalk, the Daily Journal gets the numbers on the county's pension system and much more.

Letters to the Editor

CRUDE REMEDY Greetings Editor: Perhaps there is an immediate remedy (although not “politically correct”) to the countless gallons of “sweet, light crude” gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico from the British Petroleum…

Over-The-Horizon Logging

A look at how Mendocino Redwood Company is changing the way company personnel draft Timber Harvest Plans.

Valley People

CANDIDATE for 5th District supervisor Jim Mastin and Mrs. Mastin pressed the flesh at the Lion's Club fund-raiser over the weekend, as did candidate for judge, Ann Moorman. Ms. Moorman was introduced around by local…

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