Painful Paeans To America
Panic set in not for the obvious reasons: the blinding white stone of the Capitol dome, ramparts and columns resembling nothing so much as Albert Speer’s Hall of the People after a full-on peroxide...
View ArticleThe Navarro Beach (1971)
Some of the folks down by Navarro by the Sea have been very interested in the mouth of the Navarro River. Anderson Valley people should hope that any differences are amicably settled and with justice...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I must sadly inform readers of the passing of Harold Perry at the grand old age of 96, the Valley’s oldest resident. Harold was...
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Eco-Warriors, Dorkmasters & Tommy Wayne Kramer
In the Grimm brother’s Snow White the Queen gazes into the magic mirror that never lies and vainly asks: “Magic mirror in my hand, who is the fairest in the land.” Later, she gets the news: “My Queen,...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright
As he approached his 70th year, the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright endured a bout of pneumonia during a Wisconsin winter. “You could add 20 years to his life,” his doctor told Wright’s wife, “if...
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Mendocino County Today: January 31, 2013
Schultz A UKIAH MAN arrested when 19 guns and a bomb were discovered in his home, was arraigned Friday on an array of charges. DA Spokesman Mike Geniella said Wesley Shultz, 43, pleaded not guilty...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
THE LITTLE TRAIN THAT’S BANKRUPT To the Editor: The North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) is an independent state entity in charge of the 310-mile freight rail line between American Canyon and Humboldt...
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Mendocino County Today: February 1, 2013
TOP 19 REASONS TO OPPOSE THE WILLITS BYPASS 1. CalTrans — an agency synonymous with No Accountability. Neighbors of the bypass right of way are already complaining that whenever they ask Caltrans to...
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Mendocino County Today: February 2, 2013
GLENN HUGHES, 52 of Fort Bragg has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the New Year’s Eve 2011 beating death of Jose Madrid, 45. Both men had been staying at the Hidden Pines Campground in...
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Mendocino County Today: February 3, 2013
Osterhoudt THE SAN FRANCISCO ATTORNEY hired to represent Mendocino County in the County’s effort to defend itself against the federal subpoena for County marijuana records is paid $300 an hour plus...
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Confessions of a Dirty Girl
I got an email from my sister a few months ago telling me she had entered me into some kind of obstacle course race. I am in school and work and have a kid but I was like, sure. How hard can it be? It...
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Mendocino County Today: February 4, 2013
SUPER BOWL NOTES: Great game, weird play calling by the Niners on their last possession with Crabtree absolutely mugged on the last Niner play of the game, but no call by the refs. Kaep played beyond...
View ArticleRiver Views
Two hundred twenty-five years ago this week Thomas Jefferson wrote to his more conservative friend, James Madison: “I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in...
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Mendocino County Today: February 5, 2013
Kostantinov HOYLE NETS ANOTHER BULGO: Special Agent Peter Hoyle of the Mendo Major Crimes Task Force has brought another Bulgarian pot pharma to justice. This one is Dimiter Kostantinov, formerly of...
View ArticleMi Lindo Michoacan
Anderson Valley’s resident Deputy Craig Walker has been spending a lot of time in Ukiah lately because, he says, the sheriff’s office is short deputies. Walker was in court on overtime last week,...
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The Warbler Tree Sit, Week 2
As the first tree sit Mendocino County has seen in perhaps 13 years enters its second week, there appears little indication either that the tree sitter — who goes by the moniker The Warbler — will...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 6, 2013
THIS JUST IN: Chair Dan Hamburg reported out of Closed Session on Tuesday afternoon that the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, acting as the Air Quality Management District Board of Directors, has...
View ArticleHoyle, Frase & Other Briefs
• Special Agent Peter Hoyle of the Mendo Major Crimes Task Force has brought another Bulgarian pot pharma to justice. This one is Dimiter Kostantinov, formerly of Sofia presently of Huntington Beach....
View ArticleValley Peope
BRONWYN HANES had previously pled out to embezzling some $27,000 from the Anderson Valley PTA. Tuesday, the single mother of two and long-time local resident, was sentenced to 90 days in the County...
View ArticleThe Ballerat Bandit
The story of a man named the “Ballerat Bandit” has many parallels and contrasts to the Aaron Bassler story that captured the North Coast’s attention in 2011. The Ballerat Bandit ran in the desert in...
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