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Marijuana & Mayhem

The voice mail said: “This is Terry. Something happened… I might not see you for a while. Anyway, I’m glad you weren’t here and didn’t have to see it.” Terry Cohen left that message on…

Happy Garden

There is a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco a few blocks from my parents’ house. The Garden is indistinguishable from dozens of other Chinese restaurants in Beijing-By-The-Bay: harsh fluorescent lights, black metal chairs that look like they were stolen from a VFW Hall in Fresno, a pair of grubby tanks in which lobsters and fish await the executioner’s pot. A place where rock cod and appetites come to die.

Bird’s Eye View By Turkey Vulture

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comforta-bly then I shall begin. A brief column this week as I have had little time to get out and about having spent all weekend at the…

Murrays Lose, Point Arena Loses Bigger

Paula Patterson was appointed interim principal at Point Arena Elementary in November of 2006 by Point Arena Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello. Iacuaniello and his lockstep school board had just fired Matt Murray although Point Arena Elementary's…

Valley People 2/3/2010

 UNCONFIRMED reports say the Boonville Brewery is in escrow, with the sale valued somewhere between $7 and $10 million. The Boont brews were first concocted in downtown Boonville in the middle 1980s by Ken Allen…

Off the Record 2/3/2010

This Week: Marvin Trotter, Congressman Wine Guy, The Walmart of Weed, an MTA boondoggle and much more...

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Jill Derwinski

I met Jill a couple of weeks ago and as befits the manager at Brutacao Cellars we sat down to chat with some delicious wines. Chardonnay for her and Pinot for myself. Perfect. Jill was…

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