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Posts published in October 2010

Valley People

THE TOLL HOUSE has not only been spared what was shaping up as its slow motion demise, but the historic way station in Bell Valley on the Ukiah Road has been fully restored and is…

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…

Off the Record

This Week: The execution of Albert Brown, Mendo's mental health mercenaries, Hamburg v. Liberty and much more

Masturbating on the Edge of the Apocalypse

It’s the merry laugh on the lip of the abyss. Christine O’Donnell, senatorial candidate with her “no hand jobs” program has cast an unfamiliar ray of sunshine over the surreal landscape of American politics. In…

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.

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