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Posts published in November 2015

Letters (Nov 11, 2015)

This replies to Mr. Peter Brown’s letter to the Ukiah Daily Journal Editor of October 28 that Dollar General should be allowed to build one of its 9100 Square box stores in Redwood Valley because, to paraphrase, “the rules are the rules, and Dollar General has complied with the rules.”

Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’

Propaganda. The motivation for this book is obviously Ms. Lee's desire to ameliorate the national media clamor against the southern states brought on by the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. A…

Network of Spies

Willie Fisher was born in 1903 at Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, the second son of a man who had been a revolutionary agitator alongside Vladimir Lenin in the 1890s in Saint Petersburg. Charged with sedition,…

Nephew Of Avarice, Once Removed

As an addict — as a dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying, ginuwine, for-real, tweak-seeking meth-missile — I have been known to take some fairly extreme measures to acquire the necessary chemicals in order to harmonize my various physical…

Off the Record (Nov 11, 2015)

STILL NO SIGN OF ASHA KREIMER, 26, the young Australian woman last seen at the Rollerville Cafe near Point Arena about 9:30am on Friday, September 21st. She had been driven there by her boyfriend. ASHA…

Old Books

I recently came upon an old book I inherited from my grandmother Goody, The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of English Literature published in 1939, a seventy-five-year-old book that has provided me with several days of enjoyable…

Panther Soccer Playoffs (Nov 11, 2015)

The 2015 Play-offs began last Saturday afternoon with the AV Panthers seeking their fifth Small School Championship in the last six years. Given the #1 seeding, and following a first round bye, in the quarter-final…

Valley People (Nov 11, 2015)

IT'S BEEN A BANNER YEAR for high school sports in the Anderson Valley. The girl's volleyball team is league champs and has a good shot at the small school regional title; our perennial powerhouse of…

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