UkeFest Kick-Off on Friday, April 17 at Caspar Community Center
Enjoy a weekend celebrating the ukulele as a friendly and playful instrument, beginning with a Ukulele Variety Show at the Caspar Community Center. The UkeFest Kick-Off will start on Friday, April 17...
View ArticleValley People (Mar 11, 2015)
OUR OFFICE is upstairs in the old Farrer Building, central Boonville. It's one of the oldest structures in the Anderson Valley where, back in the day, our floor, now divided into office space but...
View ArticleOff the Record (Mar 11, 2015)
A GLASSY-WINGED SHARPSHOOTER has been discovered in Marin County. This newspaper's favorite insect, the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter kills grape vines. It first appeared in the grape-growing regions of...
View ArticleFacing Imazapyr Head-On
On Thursday evening, March 5th, 120 Mendocino residents met at the Comptche Community Center to discuss Imazapyr (a broad spectrum persistent herbicide) used to control/eliminate tanoaks on Mendocino...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Gladhanding Fort Bragg; Clue York; Poison-tree Ban; GOP Hostility; Offensive Error; Unknown Skull; Catch o'the Day; Senior Cellphone; Rebel Rabble; NAMI Newsletter; Jailhouse Wedding; QE Ponzi;...
View ArticleYoung Woman In a Hurry
On average, 3000 people a year are killed on the highways in California — 33,000 nationwide — whereas only 6630 Americans have been killed in 14 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plenty of outrage...
View ArticleDouble Tap Drone Attacks: Let The Eagle Soar!
Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists....
View ArticleAnother Year, Another Great Variety Show
There had been reports of UFO sightings over Anderson Valley for several weeks. Reports in the AVA, conversations on porches and over fences. People craning their necks to trace wispy white streaks...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Mar 11, 2015)
First, may I wish a very happy St. Patrick’s Day for next Tuesday to everyone: the Irish, the Irish-Americans, the Irish Mexican-Americans, the Irish Native American Indian Americans, etc, etc, etc.
View ArticleSport Chrysler Debt Relief
Last month I wrote about the Fort Bragg City Council meeting of February 9th, and how those who left after only listening to the comments about the Old Coast Hotel project had flunked their Civics...
View ArticleMeeting Spock
Leonard Nimoy, known to hundreds of millions of people as Spock, died recently at the age of eighty-three. My brother was a huge fan of Star Trek, the television show, and is a gifted impersonator of...
View ArticleWhy I’m an EMT
I became an EMT because of natural disasters I witnessed in the Bay Area. In 1989, I was in an office building near the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake, and saw things happen to furniture,...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Tom Liden
Tom, along with Heidi Dickerson, are authors of "Mendocino Roots & Ridges: Wine Notes from America's Greenest Wine Region." He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts by the City of...
View ArticleLetters (Mar 11, 2015)
The Redwood Valley Water District, has no water rights at this time to pump any water out of Lake Mendocino which belongs to the Russian River Flood Control and Water Improvement District (RRFCD), due...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Mar 12, 2015
Open Mouth; AV Basketball; Teen Fundraiser; Catch o'the Day; Sunday Potluck; School Fundraiser; Mendo Trash; Middlebrook-ese; Earthquakes; Deep Ellum; Resisting Development; Understanding MendoVito;...
View ArticleSunday Potluck, AV Grange
The AV Foodshed 3rd Sunday Potluck in March will be followed by a brainstorming session for our upcoming Goat Festival at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville. Goat Fest will be Sat April 25,...
View ArticleMacCallum House, School Fundraiser
Dine-Out at MacCallum House Restaurant. All profits from the evening will benefit Mendocino High AE Week Top Sail. Reservations recommended to guarantee a table. Wednesday, March 25th Dinner served...
View ArticleBest Things This Week
Next time you see some gushing twit handing out a load of bullshit at the Academy Awards about the power of movies to 'change the world,' consider Dr. Strangelove.
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: A History Lesson
It is Valentine's Day and I will not be receiving any cards. There will be no phone calls, no visits, declarations of love everlasting, because I — wait for it — got no sweetie. I know, hard to...
View ArticleCasinos & The Real Colorado
Two things that have been legalized in Colorado but haven't yet in most states are (non-Indian) casinos and "recreational" marijuana. If you think the two go together, think again. The casino owners...
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