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Pie Bake 2012

On Saturday, August 25th, the annual Pie Bake took place at the Fairgrounds Kitchen in Boonville. Eric Bloyd, who participated in the Pie Bake for the first time this year, said, “Everyone gets to see…

Moving Forward By Standing Still

Described by at least one County insider as “a looming trainwreck,” the trainwreck himself loomed up Tuesday before the Supervisors. He's newly hired Retirement Board Administrator and former Orange County Sheriff’s Sergeant Richard White, informally…

Off The Record

THE BASSLER MATTER continues to create an undercurrent of vague recriminations. Bassler, you will certainly recall, was the young Fort Bragg mountain man who shot and killed Matt Coleman and Jere Melo in the fall…

Panther Soccer 2012

The 2012 season started with a journey over to Lake County and a non-league match with the Kelseyville Knights, a team the Panthers had not played for three years. Baseball coach Ben Anderson volunteered as…

Valley People

AN OLD, OLD TIMER COMMENTS: “My grandfather would set fires every year after the first rains to clear out the grass and brush on his ranch. The Indians did it regularly as well - it…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Is there a tastier and more succulent whole bbq’d chicken in the Valley than that served by Ricardo from his outdoor grill…

If The Good Lord’s Willing & The Creek Don’t Rise

Travel back again on the wayback machine into the Anderson Valley of my youth and young adulthood from the late 1950s into the 1980s. The title of this installment is an ambiguous expression that dates…

The Disenrollment Of Clayton Duncan

For as far back as Clayton Duncan can trace, the maternal side of his family has belonged to the land in and around Robinson Rancheria: a federal Indian reservation off Highway 20 near Nice, grudgingly…

Valley People

LAURA WOOD has died at age 64. Laura was sister to Charlotte Triplett and mother of Alex Wood, both of the Anderson Valley. Laura lived in the Anderson Valley for many years before moving to…

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