Valley People (July 22, 2015)
WE’RE SORRY TO HEAR that John and Andrea LaCampagne and their son Mateo are moving to Santa Rosa. The LaCampagnes have been commuting to jobs out of county for the last couple of years and it got to be...
View ArticleThe Bear Lincoln Case Revisited
In the late afternoon of April 14, 1995, just over 20 years ago now, Arylis Peters shot and killed Gene Britton in the Covelo High School parking lot. Peters and Britton both had been drinking. Peters...
View ArticleWhistle Stops & Stations Along The Old Rail Line
The San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad was extended into Mendocino County in the late 1880s. The railroad traveled north along the Russian River. If you travel up the railroad from the County...
View ArticleShepherds & Pot Growers
Mrs. Witt sounded a little like Zsa Zsa Gabor in Green Acres, a 1970s parody of a rich couple who moved from a penthouse to a hardscrabble farmstead. It sounded ridiculous that Ms. Witt didn’t know...
View ArticleShannon Hughes, Chef, Author, Artist
When she was invoked with special reverence and tenderness at Goldeneye Winery this summer during the benefit dinner for the Cancer Resource Center and she flashed her smile and waved from behind the...
View ArticleAt The Big Be-In
January 14, 2007 was the 40th anniversary of the great Gathering of all Tribes for a Human Be-In at the Polo Grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. I was teaching English at Fresno State College...
View ArticleRoad Notes, July 2015, Part 3
There are no vegetables in Wyoming, although we can hope that Dick Cheney will soon achieve such a state. In the west (to the east from the Pacific coast), the old joke goes "way out west, where the...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Open Mic In Caspar
It was a lovely early summer Albion day and I was enjoying it in the front yard with my Hungarian bombshell neighbor. Hungarian-American, I suppose is appropriate since she wasn't an emigre or refugee,...
View ArticleBrutalizing Greece
Near the top of the list of horrible things I’ve witnessed in my life are the beatings of small weak defenseless people at the hands of big strong brutal people. We had two big vicious bullies at my...
View ArticleLetters (July 22, 2015)
I remember a Ukiah where there was no mentally ill, drunks, or drug addicts roaming the streets and embarrassing city council members. No county supervisor had to take it upon himself to rid the...
View ArticleMy Everyday Carry? Why A Drone-Pistol Of Course!
Smart freedom-loving teenager mounts pistol to drone, claims this is not end of the world.
View ArticleThe Garden of the Jesuits
Opposite the house where I now live is the school my young daughter Irene attends; where I pick her up Tuesdays and Thursdays, and two weekends each month. From there, many days—especially when the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thur., July 23, 2015
PLOWRIGHTS FINALLY FINED AV couple to pay $25,000 fine for water violations An Anderson Valley couple will be required to pay a $25,000 fine for violating a Cleanup and Abatement Order relating to...
View ArticleHow ‘Sustainable’ Is The Wine Industry?
Sonoma County Winegrowers recently bought an expensive, full-page, color ad, using tax dollars, in the July 12 daily Santa Rosa Press Democrat and in various weeklies, such as the North Bay Bohemian...
View ArticleKZYX’s ‘No Safe Harbor’ Directive
Late into the evening of June 29th at KZYX's Board of Director's meeting with three public comment times somewhat successfully navigated and budget reviews from past and present years sufficiently...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Latinos Outnumber Whites in California
Donald Trump celebrates with a six-pack of mini-Coronas.
View ArticleMendocino? Mendocino!
Filmed at a Democratic Central Committee Meeting, the Big House, Rainbow Commune, Philo, 1968.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, July 24. 2015
BOWE BERGDAHL, the once-missing US soldier in Afghanistan released in a prisoner exchange and later accused of desertion, was an unexpected visitor in Mendocino County this week. He was visiting old...
View ArticleRailroad Gandydancers: Singing Strength Into Tired Muscles
A black work crew repairing and moving sections of railroad in South Carolina, 1929.
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