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Bird’s Eye View by Turkey Vulture

Greetings one and all. If you’re sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Can I say, with some emphasis, that every event/fundraiser at the Senior Center is for people of ALL AGES! This includes the twice-weekly…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Deanna Apfel

I drove a few miles up the Philo-Greenwood Road to the Apfel house where I was warmly greeted by Deanna and 12-year old Sheltie dog, Rosie. We sat down with some homemade lemon juice and…

Spy Rock Memories, Part 8

I don’t know how much time passed before I woke up. It might have been half an hour; it could have been a few minutes. My mind had lapsed into a state that was as…

Blade Runner’s Many Lives

Recent news that Ridley Scott has signed on to do a sequel to his 1982 film Blade Runner fills that movie’s devotees with a mixture of dread and anticipation. The overwhelming likelihood is that any…

Good People

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln Our maternal grandfather Casey died when he was eighty. He was institutionalized for a year…

Letters To The Editor

CLOGG APOLOGIZES, SORT OF Editor, We are reeling from the murder of Fort Bragg city councilman and former mayor, Jere Melo. I offer my sympathy to his family. I'm too well acquainted with such shocks.…

The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?

We’re homing in on the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the Wall Street World Trade Towers and the attack on the Pentagon. One in seven Americans and one in four among those aged 16-24,…

The Ungrateful Dead

The voice of the warehouse madman woke me up. “Hey dude, it’s Wayne,” his Arkansas accent scratched its way through my answering machine. “Jus’ callin’ you up man, see if y’all can pick me up…

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