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Posts published in November 2010

Off the Record

This week: RIP Louis Korn, budget cuts at the Sheriff's office, Captain Fathom back in the slammer and much more

Valley People

SUICIDE ON LAMBERT LANE. Derek Hanes, 51, was found dead Saturday morning on Lambert Lane, Boon­ville. He had hung himself on the property known locally…

Peter Mugs Paul For Loose Change

How much local property tax money should be allocated to the administration of the Community Services District’s Recreation Committee, Teen Center, and Boonville International Airport??…

Time for a Real Mutiny

So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust…

Tiburcio Vasquez, Highway Robber

Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John…

Booze, A Banker & A Bailout: The Murder Of Mark West Creek

The tragic, stranger-than-fiction story of Henry Cornell's own vineyard and proposed wine production factory reads as a distilled version of the relentless pursuit of the grape dollar by Sonoma County at large.

The 1368

The kids were sitting next to their mother in the gal­lery when daddy shuffled in chained to some other pris­oners and the guard seated them…

A Brief History of the Sheriff’s Budget

Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent…

Off the Record

WILL PARRISH'S truly excellent series on the wine industry can be found in its entirety at www.theava.com. It's the first comprehensive investigation of the Northcoast's…

Valley People

EVERYONE who knew Susan Keegan of Ukiah is shocked and saddened at her sudden death two weeks ago. Mrs. Keegan, only 55, was the wife…

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