Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 31, 2014
Rain Revelation; Strawberry Fields; ATV Tragedy; Catch of the Day; Computer Maintenance; Philo Produce; Boonville Beef; Deadly Sins; Parrish Project; Quagga Mussels; Pot Questions; If; Odd Bodkins;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, September 1, 2014
Role Models; Local Sports; Lodge Fire; Catch of the Day; Deep Questions; Coffee Plus; Grand Refuge; Cannabis Market; She Left; Police v Transients; Passenger Pigeons; Satanic Mill; Puddle Folsom;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Apfel Testimonials; Union Demise; Catch of the Day; Minimum Wage; Politics & Money; Grace Hudson Reading; UFO Review; Charles Bowden; Water Security; Dog Advocate
View ArticleSmooth Chamber Music Washed Down With Groovy Chardonnay
(Or is it the other way around?) Crossover Hit Quartet San Francisco to Play at Parducci, Sep 6 UKIAH, CA—August 29, 2014—Saturday, September 6, Parducci Wine Cellars welcomes Quartet San Francisco to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, September 3, 2014
RATHER THAN ACTING as “Supervisors” who oversee the actions of their subordinates, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors prefers to insult the messenger, in this case the Mendocino County Grand...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Sep 3, 2014)
So that was it. With the Labor Day weekend over, summer has officially been and gone, although the desperately needed rainfall is still some way off, assuming we get some!? The holiday weekend saw the...
View ArticleValley People (Sep 3, 2014)
THE BLANDLY DECEPTIVE letter from the Anderson Valley Health Center Board in this week’s paper appears three months late and takes 500 words to say all the letter writers are wrong, the Board is...
View ArticleLetters (Sep 3, 2014)
The paper has printed a number of letters from community members who have concerns and observations about the Anderson Valley Health Center and the care received by patients there. Unfortunately, many...
View ArticleEls Cooperrider
I was born during the last part of World War II, in a town called Oostvoorne, The Netherlands on the North Sea along the English Channel in 1944 during the Allied invasion and bombings of Germany. The...
View ArticleOff the Record (Sep 3, 2014)
THE GOOD NEWS. LACEY BERRY has her two little girls back. Beyond that happy fact the Berry case remains sealed. The children were taken from the Berrys when local authorities were called to the Berrys’...
View ArticleCan The Sheriff Protect Pot Growers From Vigilantes?
Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman told more than 100 people in Laytonville Sunday, Aug. 31, that he would come to the aid of medical cannabis growers if helicopter vigilantes raided them. “The answer...
View ArticleThe Acetone Defense
The first time Peter Richardson went to the venerable Water Trough bar on South State Street in Ukiah was back in the late 1950s or early 1960s (he doesn’t remember the exact year) when he was just a...
View ArticleMendo’s Timber Tentacles
It’s been well over a decade since the grape-based alcohol sector first outpaced tree cutting as Mendocino County’s dominant state-sanctioned economic sector. This watershed moment — a product of many...
View ArticleBig Vision, Small Town
Holly Madrigal made a decision in 2000 that would change her life. She headed home to Willits after college instead of moving to Silicon Valley, where many of her fellow economics majors at the...
View ArticleLWOP & Other Sentences
Your Off-The-Record dated July 30th, 2014 mentioned the percentage of guys incarcerated without any possibility of release at right around 20%. There are those whose release from prison would always be...
View ArticleThe Little River Logging Fiasco
A couple of weeks back I went on a walk with some of the people who are opposed to the proposed logging plan on Mendocino County’s Little River Airport property. I have mixed feelings about this timber...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, September 4, 2014
THE BOARD OF SUPES is sticking to its non-response to the Grand Jury report on the obvious conflict of interest with Ortner and its former employee, Tom Pinizzotto, who appears to have steered the...
View ArticleRamblin’ On
Not so long ago, many American kids dreamed of becoming cowboys – but of course few really did. Teenager Elliot Charles Adnopoz of 1940s Brooklyn, however, made his dream come true, running away from...
View ArticleIt Was An Accident
I'm going through the motions of my second jury trial on the same case. I have been held guilty until proven innocent for my entire case so far and I have lost everything that is anything to me in this...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Will Parrish
I grew up in Santa Cruz. My dad was in mid-level management at a disk manufacturer in Scotts Valley. We lived in a suburban neighborhood that was fortunately across the road from Henry Cowell Redwood...
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