Panther Soccer (Sep 24, 2014)
The team faced its toughest test yet when they hosted Rincon Valley Christian last Wednesday at Tom Smith Field. The Christians had won all six of their games to date this season and their coach...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Sep 24, 2014)
Well, it’s a month into the school year and, as far as I can ascertain, the school is performing remarkably well both in the classroom and in their sporting endeavors. G.P.A.’s above 3.0 abound among...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary!
The Anderson Valley Foodshed is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! As the importance of eating and producing local food grows incrementally, so do the hands-on activities of the Foodshed. The...
View ArticleValley People (Sep 24, 2104)
CONNOISSEURS of wacky public meetings might want to attend the Health Center’s meetings as its overlarge board of trustees goes all sphinx on locals trying to pry info out of them. This is what...
View ArticleOff the Record (Sep 24, 2014)
ALL I GOTTA SAY is some people have an awful lotta time on their hands. Seriously, by the time you got the costume on and all chained up to the wheel of love, wouldn't you just want to go to sleep?
View ArticleLetters (Sep 24, 2014)
The Point Arena School Board Meeting was like a really bad reality show! Petra Schulte from Fort Bragg Unified Schools gave a presentation regarding the importance of students having a healthy diet and...
View ArticleFire & Water Out Of Balance
A few miles east of Mt. Shasta, in an area called Coonrod Flat, a McCloud River tributary called Ash Creek winds its way through this uplands meadow, which is dotted with ponderosa pines and incense...
View ArticleAsians & Abalone
Abalone poaching is a multi-ethnic enterprise, but the perception in Mendocino County is that Asians do most of it. Do they, or is it racism talking? Dung Tri Bui’s all-white jury wasn’t polled on...
View ArticleBochy Dreams
Bruce Bochy, a pleasant slow moving man, is the longtime manager of the San Francisco Giants. A former catcher known for his gruffness rather than the poetry of his speech, Bruce seems much older than...
View ArticleEleven Days
What’s the connection between a 16th century Pope and the songwriter of “War,” Edwin Starr? Absolutely nothing, of course. As any Baby Boomer can tell you, “Absolutely nothing,” is the lyrical response...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Scott Cratty
Since early in High School, I have been involved with a variety of social issues. However, prior to moving to Mendocino County in 1999 those efforts were limited to non-working hours. My first...
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Mendocino County Today: Thursday, September 25, 2014
Bypass Protests Return Yanking Huff’s Chain PD Wineflash Pot Lessons MCOE Money Trail Catch of the Day Mental Health History Kingpins of Carbon I’m Explaining a Few Things Big Oil Brown THE RETURN OF...
View ArticleSix Degrees Celsius
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglas. In some circles of this country, citizens understand that 600,000 billion tons of CO2 poured into the...
View ArticleAlbion Sunlight
As an impressionable young student, one of the first subversive books I read was “The Journal of Albion Moonlight” by proto-beat poet and painter Kenneth Patchen. First published in 1941, it was...
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Gun Battle With Mendo Deputies Remembered
On an August Saturday night 54 years ago, Mendocino Sheriff’s Deputy Erwin ‘Butch’ Carlstedt was on patrol in downtown Point Arena when he received a call from Sonoma County dispatch advising that a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, September 26, 2014 (free today)
Fall Weather; MRC THPs; Bypass Troubles; Mayberry Hired; KZYX Photos; Losak's Raise; Andrew Fisch; Police Reports; Catch of the Day; FB Water Storage; Laundromat Dry; Truth Encounter; Nuclear Fleecing;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today, Saturday, September 29, 2014
Reckless Pedalling; Boonville Homestead; Body Found; Catch of the Day; Marijuana Darkside; Creepy Mascot; Cootchy Cookies; Drought Fault; KZYX Birthday; Meeting Delay; Salad University; Food News;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, September 28, 2014
Wine Mob; 40% Rain; Top Cops Talk Pot; Cat's Dream; Luminous Halo; Rutherford Memorial; AVHS Reunion; Georgia Summit; Hogwood's Gift; Brutal Soccer; Catch of the Day; Tunnel Luncheon
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, September 29, 2014
Big THPs on the Albion; Big Raise for the Midnight Rambler; Generation Wuss; Community Rights Road Show; Catch of the Day; Andy's Birthday Card to Craig
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Yom Homecoming; AVHC Questions; Hamburg Think; Expendable Boys; Afghanistan Forever; Sex News; Bari's Bomber; Old Loggers; Party Pooper; Cannabiz Elite; Tough Guy; Bottled Wrath; Watershed Film; Catch...
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