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Posts published in July 2015

Road Notes, July 2015, Part 3

There are no vegetables in Wyoming, although we can hope that Dick Cheney will soon achieve such a state. In the west (to the east from the Pacific coast), the old joke goes "way out…

Shannon Hughes: Chef, Author, Artist

When she was invoked with special reverence and tenderness at Goldeneye Winery this summer during the benefit dinner for the Cancer Resource Center and she flashed her smile and waved from behind the counter at…

Off the Record (July 22, 2015)

A FRENZIED midnight knife attack Sunday two miles northwest of Laytonville has left a 17-year-old boy and a 52-year-old man dead. Two other persons at the Meadow Lane home of a prominent Laytonville doctor were…

Shepherds & Pot Growers

Mrs. Witt sounded a little like Zsa Zsa Gabor in Green Acres, a 1970s parody of a rich couple who moved from a penthouse to a hardscrabble farmstead. It sounded ridiculous that Ms. Witt didn’t know what her husband of three years did for a living or what kind of farmer he was.

Bird’s Eye View (July 22, 2015)

It was a veritable smorgasbord of activity and entertainment in the Valley over the past weekend. There was live music all over the place with The Ukeholics at Lauren’s Restaurant, The Subdudes at the Navarro Store Amphitheater, and “Dancing on Ivories” with Tom McDermott at The Grange; not to mention other events such as the Barn Sale on AV Way, the usual wining and dining at our various restaurants, and the wonderful first annual Heroes of Health and Safety Fair at the Fairgrounds featuring all the good stuff that our local firefighters and ambulance crews provide us with.

Valley People (July 22, 2015)

WE’RE SORRY TO HEAR that John and Andrea LaCampagne and their son Mateo are moving to Santa Rosa. The LaCampagnes have been commuting to jobs out of county for the last couple of years and…

At The Big Be-In

January 14, 2007 was the 40th anniversary of the great Gathering of all Tribes for a Human Be-In at the Polo Grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. I was teaching English at Fresno State…

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