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Posts published in January 2011

Letters to the Editor

SIDEWAYS Dear Mr Parrish, I just now read your “Who Really Rules California's Wine Country?”, as I am catching up after returning to Massachusetts from northern Italy, where my fiance is from, and whose father…

Fogbelt Bond Shenanigans

The Point Arena Schools District held its final meeting on Gualala's elementary school and the $3.5 million bond approved in 2003 to build it.

Mmmm-mmm, Bad!

It seems that young Isaac Campbell's access to some of his grandma’s fortune might have enabled him to install a state-of-the-highly-advanced-art surveillance system at his ostensibly modest farm in Potter Valley.

‘All the Money Will be Spent’

Especially if it's public money. Count on it, but don't try to count it. The numbers will change on you. $15.25 million. That's the amount Anderson Valley voters have approved for rehabbing The Valley's crumbling…

Whales & Predictions

The news of late has been full of predictions by economists and financial prognosticators about what may befall the national and global economies in the coming year, with the dopiest among them predicting an economic recovery, the centrists predicting a general flatness in the growth graphs, and the doomsters predicting the slopes becoming so steep as to render the pyramid an obelisk.

Farm To Farm

The open road was a welcome break from virtual confinement at Wayne’s austere ranch. The three of us followed the crowned gravel and clay contouring for the better part of another winter’s day, finally reaching…

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