A Bolinas woman has sued the Bolinas Hearsay News, a twice-weekly hyperlocal bulletin that has circulated for more than half a century, alleging the paper defamed her in two pieces published last year.
The plaintiff, Cheryl Ruggiero, a lawyer who has lived in Bolinas for over two decades, first threatened legal action last fall after the pieces appeared. Her warning set off months of internal turmoil at the Hearsay and raised sobering questions…