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Valley People (Dec 2, 2015)

SHORTY ADAMS is feelin' it! The legendary school bus driver's Boonville home is the first in the Valley to turn on Christmas lights, and what…

Valley People (Nov 25, 2015)

SCHOOL BOARD update from Steve Sparks: "Following last week’s meeting the Board now has its five members in place and expectations are high for the…

Valley People (Nov 18, 2015)

THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS and it isn't even basketball season. Another soccer championship for coach Steve Sparks. Another football championship for coach Dan Kuny. And a league…

Valley People (Nov 11, 2015)

IT'S BEEN A BANNER YEAR for high school sports in the Anderson Valley. The girl's volleyball team is league champs and has a good shot…

Valley People (Nov 4, 2015)

IF THERE'S any doubt that wine rules supreme in Mendocino County, there are 12 full color, 2' X 3’, framed and glassed photos hanging on the walls of the main entrance hall of our County building promoting the wine industry. Navarro Vineyards; Handley Cellars; Scharffenberger Cellars; Greenwood Ridge Zina Hyde Cunningham are prominent.

Valley People (Oct 21, 2015)

THE ANDERSON VALLEY PANTHERS crushed undefeated Calistoga Friday night in Boonville, 44-24. The defending NCL III champs — that's us — were upset by Upper Lake last week 34-22. The loss to Upper Lake was to a team that hadn't won a game the prior two seasons, and that was bad enough, but having our 16-game winning streak snapped seemed to provide plenty of angry incentive for us to knock off the undefeated league leader Calistoga.

Valley People (Oct 14, 2015)

THE DEAD MAN in the Yorkville pot patch has been identified as 43-year-old Marcos Bautista of Cloverdale. The forensic autopsy determined Bautista had died as…

Valley People (Oct 7, 2015)

I drove over the hill to Ukiah on a hot day. I was looking for the County's lead educator. He's an Italian from Point Arena. I thought about how far education has slipped since Socrates and how they poisoned him for being bisexual. I drove east to Talmage. Damaged people shuffled up and down the sidewalks in the sun. A dog was dead in front of the Talmage Market.

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