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Forgive Us Our Trespasses…

I am writing this with a stubby pencil inside Mendocino County Jail where I am accompanied by five other brave “trespassers” including my daughter, Thea, Earth Firster Naomi Wagner and Matthew Caldwell. We spent the…

Kate Wolf

The Kate Wolf Music Festival is put on annually by Bob and Sue Barsotti at their Black Oak Ranch five miles north of Laytonville. Bob Barsotti was partners with Bill Graham during the heyday of…

Off The Record

WILLITS POLICE are investigating the death of Danny Lawrason, 77, found dead in his home on East San Francisco Avenue on Sunday June 16th. A press release from the police was ambiguous. It said that…

Valley People

THE DREADS LANDED. The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival packs them in every year, and Mendocino County's most happening venue, Boonville, radiated peace, love and good vibrations all weekend, as Mendo's very own rasta-groover, Sister…

Invite Me Next Time

  Reading the local papers, you’d think there were no more child molesters at large in the community, that they'd all been rounded up. But over the past few months, the courts have been tied…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So where did that come from? I’m talking about the couple of days of very welcome showers we just experienced. After the…

County Medical Examiner Recants. Again.

The Mendocino County medical examiner's credibility was called into serious question and the Mendocino County public defender was put on the stand over the possible bungling of a murder case, in an unusual all-day hearing…

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