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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…

Memo Of The Week: Mendolib, Par Excellence

Hi, It was definitely stupid for me to mutter at the council meeting that the seven protest letters that we received were “not very compelling.” I absolutely own that. It was a comment that could…

Valley People

BILL MANNIX has died in Santa Rosa. Bill, who was 94, wasn't as well known in the Anderson Valley as his brother Homer, but Bill was quite well known in the outside world as one…

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