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Each summer during the 70s, there were basketball camps which sprung up in the frozen windy tundra tri-state areas of Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa (the hockey states playing the Canadian league!)....
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Race Relations
The Dosses. I recently reread my (apparently original) paperback copy of Helen Doss’s book, The Family Nobody Wanted (1954, New York: Scholastic Book Services), the last half of which is set in...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s get straight into the Public Service Announcements (PSAs). Calendars and pens at the ready. #673. The Vets from...
View ArticleFrom Grapes To Wine, Part 2
This trip back to the Anderson Valley of my youth, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, began with a review of the region’s grape and wine industry before and during my earliest days in the valley...
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Mendocino County Today: January 24, 2013
A FEDERAL appeals court ruled 2-1 Tuesday that marijuana should stay on the dangerous drug roster. A medical marijuana group, Americans for Safe Access, had sued to have weed removed from the danger...
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LOG TALK Hi Cal Winslow (Host of “Talking About California,” KZYX radio, Thursday mornings at 9am), I am still enjoying your radio show. In particular, the one about how to restore forest land sparked...
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Mendocino County Today: January 25, 2013
MONICA FUCHS WRITES: “We have known for some time that Mental Health services in Mendocino County are understaffed, underfunded and poorly managed. But since Monday night the building on 1120 South...
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Mendocino County Today: January 26, 2013
MONICA FUCHS WROTE on Thursday: “We have known for some time that Mental Health services in Mendocino County are understaffed, underfunded and poorly managed. But since Monday night the building on...
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Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2013
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA’S Environmental Protection Agency is poised to list the compound, bisphenol A, a common component of plastics, as harmful to fetuses and infants. Manufacturers would have to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 28, 2013
ANONYMOUS says it hijacked the website of the US Sentencing Commission early Saturday morning to retaliate for the suicide death of Aaron Swartz, the internet activist facing decades in prison for…...
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Mendocino County Today: January 29, 2013
WILLITS CROOKS maybe ought to stay in Willits. Ferndale police officers arrested two men from Willits early Sunday morning inside a bank in Ferndale. Sylvester Loren Vansickle, 56, and Larry Daniel...
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Mendocino County Today: January 30, 2013
OF COURSE you know that four of Mendocino County’s newspapers are owned by an outside media chain. The interchangeable Fort Bragg Advocate and Mendocino Beacon; the Ukiah Daily Journal and the Willits...
View ArticleThe Warbler & The Willits Bypass
CalTrans got the go-ahead on January 15th to begin “vegetation removal” on its Highway 101 Bypass route through Little Lake Valley, courtesy of a California Department of Fish and Game memorandum...
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The iPhone As Weapon
Was Mark Sky’s iPhone case really an iPhone case? Or was it a set of brass knuckles? Mendocino County and Humboldt County have a lot in common. In fact, Anderson Valley and Southern Humboldt,...
View ArticleThe Angriest Pedestrian Ever, Take Two
The Glenn Hughes murder trial got underway last Thursday with the jury being sworn in at 10am. After about 20 minutes of jury instructions read by the Honorable Ann Moorman, presiding, Deputy DA...
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Can The Warbler Stop Big Orange?
The Warbler Cometh. A young woman perched high up in large pine tree marked for “topping” at the south end of the Willits bypass route — and a group of about 60 protesters supporting her — apparently...
View ArticleValley People
THE COUNTY’S NUMBERS regarding the true state of finances at the Boonville Fairgrounds are misleading, not intentionally misleading, but misleading. The Fair is not sitting on $1.5 mil in reserves....
View ArticleOff The Record
WILLITS CROOKS maybe ought to stay in Willits. Ferndale police officers arrested two men from Willits early Sunday morning inside a bank in Ferndale. Sylvester Loren Vansickle, 56, and Larry Daniel...
View ArticleMy Big Trip, Part Two
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill Staying with friends was the only way I could afford to make my trip to New York in 1976 last more than a week or so, and I...
View ArticleHalf Hour Adventures Of The Disappearing Boy
Here’s what I’ve learned about doing time: you can’t do years. Well, in retrospect you can, easily — that is, after you’ve done ‘em. They’re a snap. Looking back they don’t seem a huge deal. Two years...
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