Letters (May 20, 2015)
My first memory was living in a two-story house in Humboldt County in a town called Hydesville. I remember hearing the smacking sounds of my father hitting my mother and screaming at her as I hid...
View ArticleThe Curtis Knight Experience
In 1969 Curtis Knight was still recording at PPX Studios on West 55th St., just off Broadway in Manhattan. Jimi Hendrix had left Curtis’ band, gone to England with Chas Chandler, the bass player from...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (May 20, 2015)
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I continue to be “unavoidably detained” and therefore this week’s column will consist of Public Service Announcements...
View ArticleResting Places
Anderson Valley has five cemeteries, though only four are in general use. All are old, all are still active, all have rustic character befitting the valley – no manicured lawns here — and all abound...
View ArticleValley People (May 20, 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 in Boonville three weeks ago. As of Sunday, the family...
View ArticleOff the Record (May 20, 2015)
THIRD DISTRICT SUPERVISOR TOM WOODHOUSE is the latest in a long line of shallow-thinking Mendo officials to insist on “local control” of whatever pot legalization scheme the state comes up with. In...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Herb Ruhs
My parents were both active duty World War II. My mom was a Marine when she conceived me. My dad was a Navy Corpsman. When I was little, my really nasty paternal grandmother told me that my mom had me...
View ArticleHobbs’s Poisons
Apple Blossom School has a nice ring to it, as does the Orchard View School at its side. The nearby Tree House Hollow pre-school, with children as young as two and three years old, continues this...
View ArticleZecke the Bloodsucker
Buzzards swoop on the wind drafts in the draw that extends from below my house to the bottom lands next to the remains of Uncle Charlie’s cabin. The same wind currents that provide the swirling,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, May 21, 2015
ERNESTO CONTRERAS, 19, of Boonville died this afternoon when his silver, four-door Toyota Corolla unaccountably left Highway 128 at a high rate of speed near Gowan's Oak Tree and struck an oak tree....
View ArticleA Memorial Day Massacre
It's a dramatic, shocking and violent film. Some 200 uniformed policemen armed with billy clubs, revolvers and tear gas angrily charge an unarmed crowd of several hundred striking steelworkers and...
View ArticleBaby Breaking Blue (It’s Bad)
I've always been a sucker for music. I don't mean that I love it, although I do; I mean I'm susceptible in the extreme to the power of music to sway, influence, manipulate and take control of my...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, May 22, 2015
YESTERDAY'S FATALITY On May 20, 2015, at approximately 4:07pm a 2003 Toyota Corolla was traveling westbound on Highway 128 at approximately milemarker 21.50. The Corolla was traveling at an unknown...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, May 23, 2015
Sagaiga Apprehended; Jack Azevedo; Macabre News; Recall Letters; Home-invaders Sentenced; Yesterday's Catch; Palace Memories; California Counties; War Poverty; Wine Empire; Oil Spill; Dinnerstein; Lost...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, May 24, 2015
Peachland Fire; Turner Credit; Ticket Amnesty; Juneteenth; Telescope Expo; Snyder Honored; Public Servants; Yesterday's Catch; Union Bullshit; Tourism Economies; Sanders Snippets; Mayfest Chiaroscuro;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, May 25, 2015
Navarro Draw; $1 Signatures; Catch of the Day; Bear Lincoln Case; Jeremy's Sentence; Long Reflections; Rancher Antics; FB Dark Forces; Business Survey; Old Bones; PA Politics; Veteran Care; Dog People
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