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The Boonville Hotel & Table 128
This article is by Brennon, Krissy, Johnny, Katie & Melinda At the Boonville Hotel and Table 128 we all share a love for beauty and food. It is what has brought us all together. We are a group of...
View ArticleThe Fortunate Son Redux
Big Dog came by the house on a Friday afternoon, late in the day. Watching his arrival from the front room I could tell by the deliberate walk to the porch and the concern on his face that it wasn’t a...
View ArticleWhere Was Carlos Marcello?
Fifty years on and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains a national puzzle wrapped inside the enigmatic riddle that was Lee Harvey Oswald. Did he act alone? Or was JFK killed by a...
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The Ballad Of Dennis Perone
Dennis Perone “I’ve sung this song and I’ll sing it again…” —Woody Guthrie The Emerald Cup, the sprawling Cannabis festival launched in Laytonville by Tim Blake in 2004, will be held at the Sonoma...
View ArticleBeing Gotten
You remember, I’m sure, that time you went to a party with no great expectation of anything beyond munching and drinking and blah-dee-blah, and you met someone with whom you had phenomenal rapport, so...
View ArticleHoly Shit! I’m A Hash Judge
It’s true. I am on the front lines of marijuana as a concentrates judge for the 2013 Emerald Cup. That’s right, I am taking one for team LostCoastOutpost (LoCO). Actually, if we’re talking in terms of...
View ArticleUnderstanding Emotional Abuse
The Case of Peter Keegan, Susan Keegan, and the Ukiah homicide (Courtesy, justice4susan.com) Before she was a victim of homicide, Susan Keegan was a victim of emotional abuse. When we think about...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Is it cold enough for you? I thought so. As is often the case when the first such significant cold spell hits the Valley, it is...
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Shots Fired
It was an exciting night that crisp February 25th of this year, so exciting that Walter K. Miller’s performance is playing again in Mendocino County Superior Court. Miller, 43, of Ukiah, is accused of...
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Mendocino County Today: December 11, 2013
Thompson PUBLIC DEFENDER LINDA THOMPSON did not attend memorial services for long time public defenders Bert Schlosser and Tom Croak. Zero persons from Thompson’s classy operation attended Croak’s...
View ArticleSonic Trash
Praised by some as the summation of Robert Redford’s distinguished acting career, his latest film begins without music, just the stillness of a calm sea at dawn, the wide-screen expanse bathed in...
View ArticleSideline At The ‘Stick
Sunday an hour before kick-off, Niners vs Seattle, I’m on the sideline behind the Seahawk bench. A few players for both teams are on the field, running practice routes, playing soft toss, punting balls...
View ArticleValley People
A MORE comprehensive account of last weekend’s Redwood Classic hoops tourney is coming, but for now local fans should know that Branson won it in double overtime over Stuart Hall, and Mendocino...
View ArticleOff The Record
JOHN HOGGATT has died. Known in Willits simply as John The Printer, John passed away Tuesday evening at his Willits home after a protracted battle with cancer. He has printed our newspaper for many...
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Mendocino County Today: December 12, 2013
Kim JANE KIM is a San Francisco supervisor who, with her colleagues, are at last discussing neo-rent control strategies. SF rents are ridiculous, rising ever upward as more and more people with more...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
OUT IN THE SNOW… Editor, I realize domestic disputes are hard on everyone in the vicinity at best, but the police are supposed to have training in sorting out what is dangerous and what is not for the...
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Mendocino County Today: December 13, 2013
THE DROUGHT By Gary Soto The clouds shouldered a path up the mountains East of Ocampo, and then descended, Scraping their bellies gray on the cracked shingles of slate. They entered the valley, and...
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Mendocino County Today: December 14, 2013
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? Those of us now in our golden years, remember when a couple of hard-charging Mendo cops (Stuart?) roamed the County tearing up outback pot farms, and through the 1970s and the...
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Mendocino County Today: December 15, 2013
THERE’S nothing physically wrong with me, and I’ll head off sarcastic rejoinders by adding there’s nothing wrong with me mentally, either, say what you will. But I spent Friday hustling up and down...
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Mendocino County Today: December 16, 2013
THE MAJOR & THE BUMP IN THE NIGHT… Approximation of area and lighting Tuesday Night CRUISING DOWN the Willits end of the Willits Grade last Tuesday evening about 6:30, and traveling in the slow...
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