How much local property tax money should be allocated to the administration of the Community Services District’s Recreation Committee, Teen Center, and Boonville International Airport?? For the last few years the Board of the only…
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So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are…
Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John Boessenecker, certainly among the most active highway robbers in America's…
The tragic, stranger-than-fiction story of Henry Cornell's own vineyard and proposed wine production factory reads as a distilled version of the relentless pursuit of the grape dollar by Sonoma County at large.
The kids were sitting next to their mother in the gallery when daddy shuffled in chained to some other prisoners and the guard seated them in the dock. The little girl squealed, “Look Mum —…
Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent $900,000 more on overtime than he had in his budget.…
WILL PARRISH'S truly excellent series on the wine industry can be found in its entirety at www.theava.com. It's the first comprehensive investigation of the Northcoast's dominant enterprise (apart from marijuana, of course) from a critical…
EVERYONE who knew Susan Keegan of Ukiah is shocked and saddened at her sudden death two weeks ago. Mrs. Keegan, only 55, was the wife of Dr. Peter Keegan and well known in the Anderson…
HANES V. CRISPIN I Dear Sir — Although it is late in coming, this is a response to the article in your paper printed on June 12, 2009. It was an interview with John Hanes…