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Posts published in May 2011

Love Roller Coaster

The Mendocino County Science Fair prompts a trip to the West Coast's roller coaster mecca, Magic Mountain

Ball Bear Cat Piano

Jon Miller, my favorite bard of baseball, recently used the words egregious, preposterous, cerulean, prodigious, and greensward whilst painting verbal pictures of our San Francisco Giants sweeping the Rockies and the Snakes

Reformers Shouldn’t Feel Betrayed By Obama

“Medical cannabis activists” and “drug policy reform” advocates are complaining bitterly that they have been double-crossed by Barack Obama. The Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board last week emailed an article that typifies the widespread sense…

Three Strikes & A Suicide

Dear Editor: The man in the cell next to mine hung himself yesterday. I knew him for almost four years. He had what I have: an unreasonable Three Strikes sentence. They dragged him out of…

Letters To The Editor

PLUG-PULLINGS Dear Editor: Bear Kamoroff is confused (Letters, April 13), and not just about the location of the Lookouts’ [Livermore’s band] first encounter with Piano Jimmy (it was Grapewine Station, not Grapevine). It sounds as…

The Wuerfel Whirl

Over and over the Wuerfel case convenes in Ukiah court with a great feeling of expectation that something is about to happen — but it never does. Round and round it goes: The Wuerfel Whirl.…

DoodFest, 2011

Friday the 13th in Boonville this year brought a very specific kind of visitor to Anderson Valley. By Saturday, the mob was upon us. If you were fortunate enough to be in the center of…

Valley People

WE WERE SHOCKED at the sudden passing of Tonya Housley who died Saturday in Ukiah. I remember Tonya as a toddler. I'm very sorry to know that she's gone. YOU ALREADY KNOW that the governor…

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