Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014
CARDINALS THROW AWAY THIRD GAME of National League Pennant series giving Giants 5-4 win in 10th. http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2014/10/14/sf-giants-win-game-3-on-walkoff-error-take-2-1-nlcs-lead/...
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AT LAST the four-mile stretch of Highway 128 between Boonville and Philo is being repaved. Nearly two years ago, Caltrans had scraped and pitted the roadbed then, for mysterious reasons known only to...
View ArticleOff the Record (Oct 15, 2014)
WHEN ELAINE Matthews, 72, was arrested Monday night at her Little River home for an alleged assault on her boyfriend, James Meacham, 65, we took one look at her booking photo, her background, her age,...
View ArticleLetters (Oct 15, 2014)
I would like to address an article recently written in the AVA by Will Parris [sic] addressing some work of mine referenced in his article. Mr. Parris suggests my referenced article somehow ignores the...
View ArticleMore Turbulence At Coast Hospital
After sitting through the Mendocino Coast District Hospital candidates’ forum on October 6th, I promised myself I’d say something positive or at least charitable about said facility. So here’s what I...
View ArticleSharecroppers
My grandfather was a sharecropper — otherwise I would have been as ignorant of it as the pot pharmas are who practice it today. It’s a holdover from feudalism, established originally in the Southeast...
View ArticleAdventures In Hauling Grapes
I have now hauled a total of 14 tons of grapes from our vineyard on Greenwood Ridge. About half of that went to Sonoma and half to Forestville. The Forestville drive is shorter and the roads are nicer....
View ArticleAround The World On Books
Peep, peep, peep, peep. A fowl in the hand is worth two that came home to roost. It is the Friends of Willits Library book sale. For one of the least attractive towns on Highway 101 from Mexico to...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Oct 15, 2014)
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Not much to report this week, primarily because I have not been out-and-about in the Valley much. But, I can still give you the...
View ArticleWaiting For Disaster
As the drought continues and a weakening El Niño lessens the chance of a good wet winter in California, we are having a second water tank installed to give us five thousand gallons of storage capacity.
View ArticleDA Rips County Counsel
DA David Eyster’s remarks to the Board of Supervisors stunned everyone in earshot yesterday (Tuesday) because it’s extremely unusual in Mendocino County for a lawyer to public denounce a fellow lawyer....
View ArticleGoing Back To College (Part 2)
My first semester was over and now I needed a summer job. I had worked on the Mendocino County road crew out of the Laytonville Yard the past two seasons as part of the C.E.T.A crew that built the two...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Christie Olson Day
Christie is the owner of the Gallery Book Shop in Mendocino (gallerybookshop.com). She grew up in Woodenville, outside Seattle, Washington, and lived in that area until she moved here with her family...
View ArticleCalifornia’s North Coast Water Relics
In roughly three weeks, the relatively slim percentage of Californians who vote in the Nov. 2014 election will decide on a politically contentious (is there any other kind of water politics in...
View ArticleAV Firefighters: Roy Laird
Battalion Chief Roy Laird has been on the Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department for 30 years (with a few years off when his long haul trucking job got in the way), his anniversary was last May.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct 16, 2014
POSEY, BULLPEN, Cards First Baseman Matt Adams, and several others combined to give the SF Giants their third National League Championship Series win. On Thursday, they hope to put it away with a...
View ArticlePeachland Pastures
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Liz Schroeder, one of the owners of Molasses and her buddy Blossom. They live together on a property high above Anderson Valley, which includes a large...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Oct 15, 2014)
The visit of Sonoma Academy to the Valley last Wednesday was always going to be a tough match despite the Coyotes’ position near the bottom of the standings. This would be the second meeting of the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Oct 17, 2014
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! ISHIKAWA! PANIK! MORSE! CRAWFORD! BUMGARNER! SANDOVAL! POSEY! PENCE! BLANCO! BOCHY! … ISHIKAWA!...
View ArticleUkiah Women in Business Network Monthly Networking Meeting
Ukiah Conference Center, 200 S. School St, Ukiah Date: October 21, 2014 12:00 PM PDT Join us Tuesday, October 21 for our regular monthly networking meeting: 12:00 p.m. at Ukiah Valley Conference...
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