Off The Grid Communal Living: A Canadian Experiment [video]
Off the grid living on an island with no electricity, no paved roads and primitive plumbing.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015
ATTENTION FORT BRAGG FB Mayor Dave Turner, writing to a constituent, said Monday: "We are putting the CDBG ‘Forgivable Loan’ for Old Coast Hotel under Conduct of Business so we can have a full...
View ArticleValley People (Mar 4, 2015)
BIGGEST WINS EVER! AV's Panthers squeezed by Tomales 65-60 to advance a rung up the slippery ladder of the small school hoops playoff to take on perennial East Bay power St. Elizabeth's of Oakland. AND...
View ArticleOff the Record (Mar 4, 2015)
A READER WRITES of the newly elected 3rd District supervisor, "Mr. Woodhouse was advertised as a solid citizen who could be relied on to take a practical and common sense approach to governance, making...
View ArticleKen & Barb Do Jail
A couple who looked right out of Ranch & Coast Magazine were on their way to Mendocino County's overcrowded jailhouse for growing marijuana. Bob and Daisy Gwin, whose home base is San Diego, had...
View ArticleSeeds of Change Stir at KZYX
Two thirds of the Board of Directors for KZYX attended the February 2nd meeting, held at the Redwood Coast Senior Center. Absent were Board President, Eliane Herring and Directors Page and Sakowicz....
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Mar 4, 2015)
We resume Daylight Savings Time on Sunday March 8 when the clocks will go forward. This means that for some Valley folks unaware of this fact, “Boonville Time” will be almost two hours later than...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Thomas Brower
Thomas grows crops in several areas around Mendocino County including his main crop, Lavender. You will find him almost every Saturday with his kids during the season at the Ukiah Farmers Market...
View ArticleTons of Books
When I was a kid we used the word tons to mean lots. I have tons of baseball cards. You have tons of friends. This week, however, I really did move tons of books, eighty big heavy boxes, of my...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Under the Footlights
In 2010 I was experiencing a period of sobriety and employment and so consorting with my sober friends, one of whom is local (Fort Bragg) man-about-town bon vivant and impresario Joseph Sverko. Joseph...
View ArticleAmish & Hippies
The blanket of snow lingers on into March, with nights dipping below zero, so I have temporarily abandoned the plan to construct a solarium on the south side of an old concrete block shed behind our...
View ArticleHow to Beggar One’s Neighbor: Cuba in 2015
Our “educational” tour of Cuba in early February 2015 was celebrating the “lifting” of the economic blockade by President Obama. When we landed and saw the devastation of a small island that we...
View ArticleLetters (Mar 4, 2015)
These strange lights in the sky keep happening. I noticed the letter in the paper last week with the picture of a light over the clinic from John Kendall. On Valentine's night at Lauren's someone...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, March 5, 2015
SEVERAL FROST FANS assaulted the sleep of random Anderson Valley neighborhoods Wednesday morning, roaring to life about midnight and continuing a third day of their 2015 Spring offensive until well...
View ArticleWhy I Became an Ambulance Driver/EMT
I never overly applied myself in school, which resulted in some mediocre finals and had the astounding consequence that I could not study biology, the only science that held any interest for me....
View ArticlePope Tom Melcher
The name Tom Melcher rang a bell. So I did a little research. Isn't this the same Tom Melcher who ran for the KYX Board in the last elections cycle? Indeed it is! Melcher was recruited by KZYX...
View ArticleBoomer
A lot of younger people seem to be under the impression that baby boomers are the selfish “me” generation, who, after a brief flirtation with something that came to be known as “counterculture,” became...
View ArticleUnbroken
For some of us it is hard to believe that World War II ended seventy years ago. I am not quite old enough to have lived through that conflict, but it was an oft referenced yet seldom detailed event in...
View ArticleThe NDAA In Three Minutes
A short video reminding us why Obama's refusal to restore Habeas Corpus is a big problem.
View ArticleMr. Roy Joyboy Talks Lobsters and Mom [video]
The great Rod Steiger in his greatest role ever.
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