Barney was covering political races when we met, as I was volunteering on a number of them shortly after I moved to Santa Barbara in the early 1970s. I am lucky enough to say that our friendship ...

A remarkable man who may have been the last survivor of Sonoma County's "Wild West" era is dead at age 108. Clarence H. "Barney" Barnard, born in a farmhouse on the shoulder of Fitch Mountain and ...