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Posts published in August 2011

Off The Record

This Week: Full Court Press, continued; Low Gap, distilled; Squaw Rock, renamed; and much more

Valley People

LUIS ARMANDO PACHECO was 23 when he died in last Wednesday’s collision with a Coast-bound gasoline tanker on 128 near the Mendo-Sonoma County line. $1300 in cash was found on Pacheco’s body. When law enforcement…

Repo Man Cometh

Nothing like having your car repossessed while your mother’s in town for a visit. On a bright sunny morning in June, my life soon became much more complicated in the to and fro department. The…

Achilles Heel

Sometimes I get the feeling I say all the same things in these blog posts.  Other times, I go back and read them and realize, yes I am repeating myself. That's me shrugging. I yam…

Caring For The Elderly

It's one of the toughest yet most vital jobs of all — caring for the millions of elderly Americans who, though infirm, remain in their homes. There are an estimated 1.7 million of the Home…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Antoinette von Grone

I met Antoinette at her beautiful home on Anderson Valley Way on the outskirts of Boonville. After a brief tour of the house and her studios – some of it originally dating back to the…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better way to do that than to sing the praises of the Guest Chef Dinner held at the Senior &…

Three Musketeers

“Oh, the women, the women!” cried the old soldier. “I know them by their romantic imagination. Everything that savors of mystery charms them.” — Alexandre Dumas Last Thursday evening, as I was about to go…

Who’s Really ‘Pro-Life’?

Three decades ago, medical and public health students at UCLA were sometimes taken on a tour of an old hospital ward, previously dedicated to women suffering the aftereffects of illegal abortions.

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