Sacramento lawmakers certainly made a lot of new laws this year, sending the most bills to the governor’s office in more than a decade. In all, legislators sent 1,217 bills for Gov. Jerry Brown to…
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December 29, 2018 — Friday morning began with Kenneth Hall admitting he’d consumed alcohol during the holidays, in violation of his parole, and his mandatory supervision was revoked and he was sentenced to 90 days…
In the half-dozen homeless camps on the outskirts of Fort Bragg there were no fires on Christmas Eve. Any light might attract the attention of the cops. The raids come without warning, in intermittent unannounced…
Winegrowing and winemaking are important to Anderson Valley today. But the industry is a relative newcomer. Prohibition put the local wine industry on ice during the 1920s and 1930s as vineyards fell into neglect or…
Who picked Picker to pickle PG&E? According to wire stories on Christmas Day, the PG&E rubber stamp
In the 1860s the Frost and Coates families of Little Lake engaged in a running feud that culminated in a shootout outside Baechtel's Store on election day, 1867. The gun battle lasted but fifteen seconds.…
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Anderson Valley Deaths in 2018 Sharon Sullivan Jerry Cox Beryl Thomasson Ken Montgomery Christine Lopiccolo Paula Kesenheimer Nick Rossi Jason Abbott Willis Tucker Michael Hibbeln Carolyn Hibbeln David Falleri Charley Swehla Pat…