THE CAUSE OF DEATH on Susan Keegan's death certificate has been changed from “accidental” to “homicide,” meaning that Doctor Peter Keegan better have the criminal defense lawyer he hired soon after his wife's highly improbable…
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THERE HAVE BEEN a few too many mortality reminders lately, and now Bobbie Hiatt has gone just after the loss of Harold Hulbert. Like Harold, Bobbie was always central to the Anderson Valley, a fixture…
In the early morning sunshine of August 8th, a dozen men with picket signs stood outside the AT&T central office on Franklin Street in Fort Bragg. The men were on the second day of a…
Off we go on the wayback machine to the Anderson Valley of my youth, this time from the late 1950s into the 1980s. However, this one begins in the present day. My recent visits to…
THE HOT WEATHER. Sigh. Monday, it was 104 in Boonville, hotter yet over the hill in Ukiah. Our usual late summer pattern is two-to-four hot days relieved by the inevitable cooling fog moving up The…
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors made some history at their July 24 meeting. At the urging of Board Chair John McCowen, they formally discussed their responses to the Grand Jury report, item by item,…
She had a toothache the size of Mount Rushmore. It was so bad she needed more than Novocaine, Xylocaine, more than nitrous oxide … more like 28 grams of cocaine and some “crack,” a mix of coke and crank.
THE GOLDEN STATE'S government has discovered $119 million more in hidden funds, the Governor's office has announced. These millions are in accounts for healthcare programs, reimbursement of crime victims and cleanup of underground petroleum tanks.…
I met with Walt at his home just outside Boonville, off Hwy 128 — the one with the spectacular gardens next to the Cal Tran yard. I thought I was going to be interviewing his…