Six Months of Demonstrations Celebration
South Coast People For Peace And Justice will celebrate Six Months of Demonstrations (July 7 – January 5, 2014) next Monday, January 5th at 12 noon in front of the Gualala Post Office. We invite...
View ArticleValley People (Dec 30, 2014)
RON SCHRYER has died. A long time resident of the Anderson Valley, Ron, in his middle 70s, lived on Hutsell Road, Boonville. He was the former brother-in-law of late Bruce Hering. GREENWOOD WEST TO ELK...
View ArticleOff the Record (Dec 30, 2014)
WHAT WOULD VERN have done? The Fort Bragg basketball tourney is named after the late Vern Piver who, for many years, dedicated himself to youth sports, and when I invoke the overused and often...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Dec 30, 2014
Ban Adjustments; CPUC Peevey; Hands-on Reporter; Click Bait; Legless Pigs; Theodore Galletti; Stoner Nation; Fun with Animals; Industrial Might; The Trigger; Washington Square Park; Catch of the Day;...
View ArticleLetters (Dec 30, 2014)
I am writing you to request contact information on the group of soccer players who witnessed Dan Saulsbury's murder. The DA did not keep Dan's body or give it to his mother, or even let her see him....
View ArticleSomewhere, Vern Piver Is Laughing
The following is a chronological collection of stories and comment arising from Fort Bragg High School’s “disinvitation” of Mendocino High School’s girl’s and boy’s basketball teams because the...
View ArticleInside Moves
While he was chief of the Fort Bragg Police Department Scott Mayberry falsely accused one of his officers of leaking an official incident report. That’s a serious charge. Any reader might rightfully...
View ArticleMendocino County 2014: The Big Stories
One of the biggest stories, at least in national and even international coverage, is underway in the waning hours of this year. It is the ongoing I Can’t Breathe t-shirts that got Mendocino High School...
View ArticleChristmas in the Rose City
Marcia and I are standing in line at See’s Candies in Santa Rosa, two days before Christmas 2014. See’s Candies is owned by billionaire Warren Buffet and has more than two hundred outlets throughout...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Todd Walton
I started writing stories when I was six. My first stories were essentially transcriptions of stories I had invented and told to my friends and classmates. I knew from the get go I would have to...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Death & Clams
It’s sad when people die, especially when they are taken violently or unexpectedly. I don’t like it when this happens to people I know and I don’t like it when I’m forced to participate via the...
View ArticleShades & Sounds of Winter, 2014
During my periodic visits to Anderson Valley in recent years, I often told recently arrived residents they had not yet experienced a true Anderson Valley winter, one with big storms that lasted days,...
View ArticlePassing Through
I found myself on the grassy series of knobs headed uphill into dark woods, the old stage coach route which picked out a somewhat more precarious path along the coastal bluffs than the present highway,...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Dec 30, 2014)
It’s the amateur party-go’ers Big Night Out of the Year: New Year’s Eve! That’s fine of course, but I encourage others to try and enjoy the festivities too, and wherever and with whomever you may find...
View ArticlePint Arena’s New City Manager
Last week I visited Point Arena City Hall because the new City Manager and secretary weren’t answering their phones. I asked for a few chapters out of the City’s Muni-Code, and had a few more questions...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec 31, 2014
Hard Freeze Warning; Fear of Deranged Mourners; Weasel Lips; Vengeful Protest Warning; Catch of the Day; Freedom of Speech; Fear of Offspring; Out Produced; Low Fish Count
View ArticlePhony Baloney from Brennan & Sony
A week ago, two big stories had just broken: “Senate Exposes CIA Torture” and “Sony Chiefs’ Racist Emails Revealed.”In response —and in concert— the National Security Apparatus denied the torture...
View ArticleNew York’s Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter, the now immortal New York Yankee. I add in New York because that’s where I grew up, a blue blooded, pinstriped Yankee fan. But fear not, I’ve lived a longer life here in Northern...
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