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Letters to the Editor

ABUSED & HAUNTED Editor, Lifting the lid on Fort Bragg Elder abuse: I have been the e-victim of mental elder abuse from slumlordies (M/F) three times in succession, all involv­ing water problems and effective heating…

Panther Soccer 2010

Last Wednesday afternoon (Sept 22nd), against Santa Rosa against Roseland Prep — arguably the league’s strongest team — the Panthers were greeted with the usual intimidating atmosphere provided by close to 150 opposition fans hugging…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Following my exploits at the Fair I will keep it relatively brief this week and so apart from these few quick Public…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Mike Reeves

I met with Mike at his home on Lambert Lane in Boonville last week and we each enjoyed a strong cup of good coffee as we sat down to chat. Mike was born in 1950…

Jewels Of Silent Film Music

There are few things worth giving up a perfect fall after­noon in Upstate New York for, but Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman with live music is one of them. A din­ner break and a return for…

Meaning of Meaning

“A serious and good philosophical work could be writ­ten consisting entirely of jokes.” — Ludwig Wittgen­stein I first encountered the writing of Ludwig Wittgen­stein in 1967 when I was 19, a freshman at UC Santa…

Farm To Farm

The first mornings after the autumn equinox you really feel the shift in season on the west side of Ander­son Valley, with the redwood forests shedding cold drafts that under­mine whatever heat is in the…

Beam Rider

I should have been an experimental physicist or per­haps even an astrophysicist. One disadvantage to the latter profession is that you can't really get close to the explo­sions you're studying. “A good explosion,” a friend…

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