Mendocino County Today: Sunday, May 10, 2015
(Courtesy, MendocinoSportsPlus) ============================= HACK & SQUIRT, PUBLIC COMMENT, SESSION 2 From last Tuesday's "Let's Study It For A While" Board of Supervisors agenda item. Madge...
View ArticleA Grand and Awful Scene – A Naval Battle from the War of 1812
1812 | Atlantic Ocean Having learned which way the Guerrière was steering when last seen, we crowded all sail in that direction. We steered a northeast course for several hours, until the morning of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, May 11, 2015
THE DISCUSSION began with a couple of us trying to figure out who made the decisions and when the decisions were made to buy Fort Bragg's Old Coast Hotel for Hospitality House. A KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
CONSPIRACIES. We get a lot of conspiracy stuff, long, endlessly long, endlessly earnest tracts, all of them saying, basically, one thing — our government is trying to kill us. Of course it is. Who...
View ArticleJDSF Advisory Group Meeting
Willits – The Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) Advisory Group meeting will be held on Monday, May 18, 2015. Participants will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the JDSF office located at 802 N Main Street...
View ArticleNakba Day
South Coast People For Peace & Justice will join the global observance of Nakba Day this Friday, May 15th at noon in front of the Gualala Post Office. We remember the 67th anniversary of the ethnic...
View ArticleStudent Exchange Hosting
International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE), in cooperation with your community high school, is looking for local families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of...
View ArticleThe Suit Who Spooked the EPA
John Beale was the model public servant. He was also untouchable.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 13, 2015
THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS over the interior northwest California mountains each afternoon and evening through this coming weekend, with the best chances occurring Wednesday and Thursday....
View ArticleValley People (May 13, 2015)
LORETTA HOUCK remains in serious but stable condition at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital after suffering a terrible injury to her head in an accident two weeks ago. You can help Loretta and her family...
View ArticleGiants 3, Surveillance State 2
Bruce Bochy said Joe Panik sat for nine innings and then came up and squared the ball for a run and the win Friday night against the LA Angels "and don't forget the good job Santiago Casilla did in...
View ArticleOff the Record (May 13, 2015)
OUR SOURCES say the "forgivable loan" to buy Fort Bragg's Old Coast Hotel is not the done deal Mayor Turner and his allies seem to assume it is. The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) is federal...
View ArticleEven In the Courtroom…
Darrell Elrod and Ms. Markien Willburn came to court tweaked last Thursday to argue that they were not tweaking last winter when Officer Cody Mason pulled them over in Willits on the longest night of...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (May 13, 2015)
I am in the “big heart of England.” Birmingham, the second largest city in Britain after London, and enjoying a pint and a steak and kidney pie and chips at The New Inns, a classic old pub built in the...
View ArticleToo Many Straws In the Russian
On April 21st, officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the State Water Resources Control Board sent joint letters to property owners in four of the Russian River's largest...
View ArticleStripes
A friend recently sent me a link to a short movie about a high school art teacher in St. Paul Minnesota whose students are recent arrivals from other countries, refugees from military conflicts. Many...
View ArticleClass & Coffee at the Headlands
When I am not in a condition of employment — and this is a rarer state than you might imagine, given the depth, breadth and vibrancy of my criminal record — I like to hang out, and one of my favorite...
View ArticleLetters (May 13, 2015)
For quite a few years, I too hand-picked the snails and slugs from my ravaged plants, rewarding myself with the modest satisfaction of taking them next door to my neighbor's house and feeding them to...
View ArticleSelling Off Public Property
It was an early spring day and I sat in my dentist's waiting room. The only magazine that looked even half interesting proved to be the latest issue of Field and Stream. What I thought would be a...
View ArticleNorthward Ho
Good friends Don and Misty are coming up to Bieber for a few April days before we road trip north together. Don is Portuguese and his wife Misty is a lovely Japanese woman. They’re mad for each other...
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