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Panther Soccer Preview 2016

This season the team plays 17 league matches plus six non-league games that will count in the overall postseason seedings. I suspect the main rivals for league supremacy will be Roseland Prep from Santa Rosa (five-time repeat regular season Champions) and Calistoga —with the Panthers these three have held the top three spots in the final league standings nine of the last ten years. But no games are forgone conclusions — the overall standard of play across the league has greatly improved lately.

Valley People (Aug 17, 2016)

LORETTA HOUCK has died. Loretta was a lovely, vivacious woman we’d all hoped would miraculously recover from the terrible accident she suffered in April of last year. We are saddened at her passing, and our…

Bird’s Eye View (Aug 17, 2016)

While the diabolical terrorist attacks on innocent people which have taken place over the past year or two are still far from commonplace, their frequency has become such that I believe the reactions by many of us to such horrors are beginning, very gradually, to get increasingly numbed.

Valley People (Aug 10, 2016)

ALTHOUGH formal confirmation is pending, Kathy Hulbert, 57, of Philo, was found dead Saturday morning in her van, which had unaccountably careened off a steep section of the Ukiah-Boonville at the 9.6-mile marker and fell…

Bird’s Eye View (Aug 10, 2016)

Is it all starting to unravel for The Donald? Following a number of recent gaffes, Republican Meg Whitman, President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and a major financial contributor to the GOP, commented on Facebook that to vote Republican out of party loyalty alone “would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division.” I am sure many Trump supporters responded with, “So what’s your point?” Yes, that response might be funny were it not quite possibly true.

Navarro River Watch

After reading a second Press Democrat article in a month about blue-green algae and dying dogs in the Russian River, Friday evening the Editor sent me an email asking how our river was faring. My…

Valley People (Aug 3, 2016)

BOB DEMPEL, HOPLAND OLD TIMER, WRITES: I, like you, was saddened to hear of the passing of John Hulbert. I also had been thinking about calling him but for the past 50 years. John and…

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