Multiple Thanks
The week before Thanksgiving, we pre-ordered our organic, free-range, successfully psychoanalyzed, thrice-blessed, kosher, Pulitzer-Prize-winning turkey from Harvest Market and then drove to Santa Rosa...
View ArticlePearl Harbor Survivor
Count me as one. I was two, my brother one, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. My brother and I were born in Honolulu where our paternal grandfather, a Scots immigrant, was a...
View ArticleOff the Record (Dec 10, 2014)
THE DEADLINE for grape growers to submit self-drafted water management plans is February 1st. The State Water Board attempted, three years ago, to bring some control over the grape industry’s...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wed, Dec 10, 2014
Storm Warnings; Binder Rumor; Christmas Lights; $enior Pa$tor; Doppelgangers; Random Irritants; Reintroducing Herbicides; Doris Cooley; Copland Fanfare; Deferred Compensation; Library Director; Catch...
View ArticleIt Happened In 1929
Once upon a time in Mendocino, a hundred years and more ago, children walked miles through downpours along Little Lake Road before splashing their way on up the rise to school. By 1912, the parents who...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Dec 10, 2014)
Many people in the Valley who have chickens no doubt have their “horror” stories of their coops being invaded by various creatures that manage to get inside and then devour the defenseless brood. Well...
View ArticleLadies Of The Night
In the wake of the lumber boom of the late 1800s that swept the North Coast, numerous saloons sprang up in Mendocino and other Mendocino County towns. A Saturday night spent leaning on the bar was...
View ArticleBob Marley Spins In His Grave
The Marley estate plans to use Bob Marley’s name or image on a vast array of products, from Marley coffee (the slogan: ‘Stir it Up’) to soccer balls, bedsheets, and a Grand Theft Auto-ish video game....
View ArticleMissing the Obvious
I saw on CNN this neck-tied worldly philosopher and political prognosticator pronounce that the trouble with the truth is that you can’t prove it. Since I’ve heard that kind of horseshit my whole life,...
View ArticleThe New/Old Wild West
Okay, the grand experiment is over. Amazingly, a black man was elected president. It can’t happen again until after 2050, the projected time when whites will be officially a minority. We see what...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Literary Edition
A while back in the Letters section of this august journal there was an ongoing impromptu forum discussing folks’ top ten literary pics. I enjoyed reading our readership’s lists and was by turns...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Dec 11, 2014
Schools Closed; Boonville Weather; County Preparations; MTA Service; Rainageddon; Stormy Weather; $64 Million; Boys Basketball; TWK MendoVito; Naulty Exonerated; Jesus Sentenced; Catch of the Day;...
View ArticleSchools Closed Thursday
All schools in the Mendocino Unified School District will be closed on Thursday, December 11th due to the weather.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Dec 12, 2014
Trash Mover; ICO Delayed; Toddler Munches Stash; Storm Hype Reactions; Irish Flood; Rain Song; Allen Retires; Naulty Limbo; Police Reports; Catch of the Day; Choo-Choo Appeal; Grange Holiday Dinner;...
View ArticleWillits Library Art Showcase
Willits Library has a locking glass cabinet suitable for displaying small works of local arts or crafts. We are scheduling our 2015 calendar. Display space is available for one calendar month on a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Dec 13, 2014 (free today)
River's Rise; Storm Wimps; Trailer Death; Guadalupe Parade; AV Events; Native Marijuana; 2012 Bust; Catch of the Day; ER Superusers; Neuroth News; Storm Issues; Paper Costs; Lunch Money; Book Sale;...
View ArticleNorway Builds First Bike Escalator!
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