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Old-Time Music Hits Boonville

The Golden Old-time Music Camp-Out came to Boon­ville last weekend for the second time. It used to be in Yreka, way up north. This is the second music festival to relocate to Boonville in the…

Sheriff’s Log

8/13 7:59pm A Philo family dispute required the media­tion services of law enforcement. 8/16 9:42am An unidentified 46-year old man piloting a white 2001 Dodge Van was arrested, cited and released for driving on a…

Off the Record

This week: Don't mess with dog people, conspiracy and garbage, DA Lintott and Kendall Smith, plus much more...

Valley People

MARIANO LOPEZ FERNANDEZ, 31, was shot and killed by deputies last Wednesday morning at a mari­juana garden near Branscomb, west of Laytonville. Mr. Fernandez had lived in Boonville at Airport Estates with his wife Jessica…

This is What Success Looks Like

The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into Kuwait August 19. The US…

Letters to the Editor

WHY WAS GREENFIELD RAIDED? Editor, The federal DEA raid 7/7/10 of Joy Greenfield's col­lective, “Light the Way,” magnifies the critical juncture where medical marijuana legalization in the states chal­lenges federal prohibition. Greenfield, 69, aka “grandma…

In The ‘Range Of Light’: Beauty & Horror, Illuminated

“The Sierra Nevada is one mountain range, 430 miles long and 40 to 80 miles wide ... a 25,000-square mile construction with granite cliffs as walls, wildflowers as carpet, and a star-studded sky as the…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Mike Crutcher

I met Mike at his home on Hwy 128 almost opposite The Grange between Boonville and Philo. I sat down with a cup of fresh coffee and a plate of chocolate good­ies Mike and his…

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