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Posts tagged as “region”

Off the Record (September 6, 2023)

IT COULD HAPPEN HERE: The restaurant owner whose battle with a Kansas newspaper led to a viral raid has broken her silence to reveal the hate mail she's received blaming her for the death of…

Valley People (September 6, 2023)

MICHAEL ‘MIKE’ OWENS Born and raised in the Anderson Valley to Billy and Wanda Owens, ‘Mike’ died in his sleep last week at his Boonville home. He was 58, and a 1983 graduate of Anderson…

Snuffing Out Medical Marijuana

Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather of Sebastopol is an OG among cannabis clinicians. He incorporated the herb into his practice back in the 1970s when he and his young family were living at The Farm, an intentional…

Yankee Aaron Judge’s Home Town

I was born a New Yorker and grew up a New York Yankee fan. Born to be, might be a better way to express it. Aaron Judge is the latest Yankee slugger with his record…

Sheriff Reno Bartolomie, In His Own Words

 (Reno Bartolomie was Mendocino County Sheriff from 1955 to 1975. He died in 1990.) I was born in Fort Bragg on April 17, 1916 in Redwood Coast Hospital. Dr. Campbell delivered me. My folks lived…

Anderson Valley Blasts Into Fall

Although some might argue that August 27th isn’t really fall, everyone must admit that fall is in the air. The AV Senior Center under the able leadership of Director Renee Lee and the generous services…

County Proposes To ‘Dissolve’ Citizen Committees

Let’s see, for the past 18 months we’ve heard from the Board of Supervisors that the County is broke but they don’t quite know how that happened. Supervisor Ted Williams says the County “has three…

Local School Adopts Baby Oaks

I live next to a very tall Valley Oak that drops a lot of acorns in my yard. If those acorns sprout I usually pluck them, but one spring when I found a bunch of…

County Notes: Stonewalling & Ducking The Issues

The only mention of the pending employee strike (possibly in early September) due to the County’s failure to provide even a token cost of living increase offer to the nearly 700 member Service Employees Union…

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