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Posts published in June 2012

Half-Baked & Half-Cocked

The murder trial of Marvin Johnson and Simon Thornton is underway at the Mendocino County Courthouse. Johnson and Thornton are charged as accomplices in the fatal shooting last summer of Joe Litteral, who took a…

Off The Record

RAY WHITTAKER is a good ref and a good guy. Anybody who's attended a local ball game over three generations of Mendocino County high school kids can attest to his steady, competent fairness. He has…

Valley People

CURTIS ‘CURT’ BERRY, long-time resident of upper Greenwood Road, has died. We hope to have a full obituary in next week's paper. POINT ARENA'S high school baseball team is justly proud of being the first…

Mendocino County Today: June 6, 2012

PLEASE WRITE LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR BILLY MAYFIELD'S PAROLE TO: GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN, STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, SUITE 1173, SACRAMENTO, CA, 95814. CURTIS ‘CURT’ BERRY, long-time resident of upper Greenwood Road, has died. We hope to…

Resistance To Nazis In A Land Riddled With Caves

We rode out of St. Julien, across the bridge over the Dordogne River and a mile down the other side of the river. We turned right on a side road toward a settlement called Le…

Mendocino County Today: June 5, 2012

RAY WHITTAKER is a good ref and a good guy. Anybody who's attended a local ball game over three generations of Mendocino County high school kids can attest to his steady, competent fairness. He has…

Mendocino County Today: June 4, 2012

A READER sends along this comment with some unkind assessments of the mental acuity of AVA staff: “Every time someone tells me how ‘logical’ and ‘rational’ males are relative to females, I merely point to…

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