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Valley People

IN THE YEAR JUST PAST, the Anderson Valley said goodbye to Terry Ottoboni Lane Medaris, Mildred Olive (Hulbert) Gowan, Patty McCummings, Myrtle Evelyn Bakker, Lorna Chance, Harriet Jean Piper, James Monroe 'Bo' Hiatt, Christopher Stuart…

Chris Diaz, The Documentary

I had the opportunity to do a cam-recorded almost hour-long interview with Christopher Diaz at the Mendocino County jail. It's broken up into four parts on a YouTube channel I just established that can be reached at:…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Never let it be said that a Turkey Vulture is not a noble creature, particularly when it comes to admitting one’s mistakes.…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Susan Newstead

I met with Susan at her lovely home in Rancho Navarro and we sat down overlooking the meadows outside with a cup of herbal tea and began to chat... Susan was born in Boonville, Missouri…

Valley People

BOONVILLE POSTMISTRESS COLLETTE Hahn is singlehandedly woman-ing the always busy Boonville Post Office, dashing from sorting mail in the back to the counter to wait on people dispatching Christmas packages. We hope she doesn't think…

‘We Don’t Know What We’re Doing’

We can sell off five “surplus” properties and make our broke County some money. That was the thinking at the December 6 meeting of the Supervisors. A couple of the parcels appear to be tax…

Off The Record

HOUSEHOLD INCOME HAS DECLINED 14.2% countywide from 2007 to 2010 based on personal income tax filings. Willits led the decline with 19.5%, with Fort Bragg at 9.7% and Ukiah at 5.3%. Average household income in…

‘I Could Hear Them Talking…’

Rey Reyes shot his stepson dead a year ago in Laytonville. The shooting occurred on a Wednesday night, December the 1st, 2010. Reyes' murder trial began December 4th of this year. Reyes, 51, Colin Champlin,…

It Was (Mostly) Those Women

In May 2011, if you had asked pretty much anyone in Anderson Valley why it was that the ancient redwood groves of Hendy Woods State Park had been spared the axe and sawmill fate that…

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