Half-Sibling Revelry
By Michael Alberty
Merlot is so Napa. The grape doesn’t belong in the Willamette Valley, right? Felix Madrid, owner of
Carlton is where farm, industry and community unite to grow, sell and drink Pinot Noir. It is the last place you would expect a Merlot outbreak. Madrid’s new Merlot-Malbec blend might just change that.
Madrid is no neophyte looking to make his name by toppling King Pinot. He came to the Willamette Valley in 1990 when Dick Erath invited him to become a cellar master. Madrid filled his own vineyard in Carlton with Pinot Noir a year later.
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Metro daily - Cindy Rentz, cashier and waitress at One Stop Cafe in Smiley, tends to a customer. A year ago Charlie Bell shot Randell Basham dead inside One Stop Cafe, in Smiley, TX. Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001.Bob Owen/Staff Photographer
These days, about the only folks who will sit in the corner chair facing the entrance of the One Stop Cafe are strangers who are behind on recent local history.
Just a year ago, on Halloween, Randell Basham was sitting there, about to dive into his platter of eggs and sausage, when Charlie Bell came through the door packing a handgun.
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sorting bin who then reported smelling smoke. the building was evacuated and all employees are accounted for. we have just learned that the envelope was addressed to homeland security and general. with relation to yesterday s incident in maryland where this package and another similar package was sent to a state office building, a homeland security official says that both of these incidents do their similar characteristics. live in northeast washington, nicole collins. tonight, mail rooms across maryland are beginning to reopen after yesterday s security scare. investigators are investigating where the packages came from and who sent them. we have live coverage and we begin with david collins who is live at state police headquarters. investigators are banking on forensics and the public s help. before the incident in washington d.c., officials expressed concern that whoever is responsible could continue to strike. let s start with the package itself. the box that carr