Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct 4, 2014
Neurotic Youth; Giants Win; Lucky Bobcat; Native Gardening; Police Reports; Catch of the Day; Eel Salmon Run; Pot Initiative; S Fundraiser; Our Whole Life; Fire Losak; Mellow Mendo; Local Food; Rare...
View ArticleWillits Earthquake
3.9 earthquake, Saturday morning, 8:45am, 14 kilometers SW of Willits.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014
Giants Win Marathon; Voter Guide; Reject Losak's Raise; Behead the PD; Cliff Driver; Love-in-it Claims; Catch of the Day; Food as Medicine; Home Burial; Profound Changes; Over & Out; Alan Stein's...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Oct 6, 2014
THIRD DISTRICT SUPERVISOR: Holly Madrigal. Seems like all the boys up in the North County can’t bear the thought of a durn gurrrrllll sitting as their supervisor, but can any of you boys point to a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Oct 7, 2014
UKIAH CITY COUNCIL. As inland people are sooooo fully aware, at long last the silliest of the silly people are gone from the Council. No more Little Benj, no more Mari Rodin, no more Landis. Incumbent...
View ArticleLetters (Oct 8, 2014)
Okay, you Nattering Nabobs of Negativism, listen up. I know you’re tired, disgusted, and thoroughly pissed off by the Gigolos running this country. You and I know almost all politicians are for sale to...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Oct 8, 2014)
Following the huge disappointment of last week’s 1-2 loss against St. Vincent’s, it would be a challenge for the team to bounce back to winning ways. One way to perhaps raise spirits would be to play a...
View ArticleYoung Giants
A gift of tickets allowed my daughter and I to attend the Giants’ 161st, or second-to-last, game of 2014. Until that morning, our decision to attend the game had been up-in-the-air. Now that the day...
View ArticleRunaway Red
Most of us shoot ourselves in the foot from time to time, metaphorically anyway, but Kenneth McCarty shot himself in the foot then ran over his other foot. Not on the same day, but close. Nobody saw...
View ArticleClear Lake’s (and the World’s) Algae Problem
The problem began in earnest in the late-1920s, when heavy earth-moving equipment set about filling and re-sculpting Clear Lake’s shoreline wetlands to “reclaim” them for agriculture, Bradley Mining...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Oct 8, 2014)
I have been a little remiss by not always including the various AV Foodshed events in the column so here are some for the month of October. This Friday, October 10, Fri Oct 10. Paysanne Ice Cream in...
View ArticleValley People (Oct 8, 2014)
SUE SELLERS, a long-time resident of the Anderson Valley, has died, carried off at age 78, we understand, by a heart attack.
View ArticleOff the Record (Oct 8, 2014)
THE LOVE IN IT POT COOPERATIVE'S proprietors, Sherry Glaser Love and Robert Love have filed three separate claims against the county totaling $535,000 for the allegedly mistaken raids on Love In It...
View ArticleWords and Deeds
According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus told his followers (as recounted by the King James translation), “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be...
View ArticleAVA Recommendations for the Nov 4, 2014 Election
UKIAH CITY COUNCIL: As inland people are sooooo fully aware, at long last the silliest of the silly people are gone from the Council. No more Little Benj, no more Mari Rodin, no more Landis. Incumbent...
View ArticleGoing Back To College
Going back to college to get my degree and a teaching credential after dropping out nine years earlier was tough in a lot of ways. The first was that the closest college to Willits was Sonoma State,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct 8, 2014
Giants Win; Eyster Rips Losak; Principal Busted; Lunar Eclipse; Ebola Crazed; Water Conservation; Pot Business; Catch of the Day; Covelo Quake; Corporate Dictatorship; Costume Contest; Jewelry Making;...
View ArticleWhat Shall We Do?
Congress has just voted to cut nine billion dollars in food stamps for poor Americans while voting to spend an initial sum of twenty billion dollars to bomb people in Syria and Iraq. That’s twenty...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct 9, 2014
Iacuaniello Blank; NYTimes on Playoff Giants; Redwood Valley Lurker; Catch of the Day; Willits Detour; ISIS Crisis, Biden Blurt; Redtag Palace; Amy & Katrina; Halloween Party; Maunakea Telescope
View ArticleAV: Alien Evaluations?
I must have been five or six years old when I saw the first movie that scared the bejesus out of me. It hit Big Screens Everywhere in the summer of 1953. Since I was born at the end of ’49, I must have...
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