Yorkville Ranch Tours
Anderson Valley Land Trust presents the 5th, almost annual, Sustainable Discoveries event on Saturday, September 26, 2015. For inquisitive folks truly interested in sustainable agriculture, this year...
View ArticleMendocino County Fair and Apple Show
September 18, 19 & 20 at the Boonville Fairgrounds. Note: most fair entries will need to be submitted on Wednesday, Sep 9, or Thursday, Sep 10. SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY, Sep 18: Jr. Swine Show is...
View ArticleIf The SHU Don’t Fit: Judge Throws Book At Solitary Confinement
Prolonged solitary confinement causes severe physical and psychological harm. Just ask Sarah Palin.
View ArticleVirtual Fence for Virtual Protection of Virtual Democracy
Homeland Security Rent-A-Cops watch multi-screen video surveillance from "integrated fixed towers," including two channels dedicated to ESPN and the BYU Network.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wed., Sep.2, 2015
LAYTONVILLE'S TEEN KILLER, Talen Barton, will appear in Judge Moorman's courtroom Wednesday at 1:30pm to enter guilty pleas under terms of a plea agreement reached with the Public Defender and the DA....
View ArticleOff the Record (Sep 2, 2015)
A FORT BRAGG READER WRITES of the late Janice Owings that “she was the best example or could have served as “poster child” for people who are unable or unwilling to care for themselves. Her gait...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Sep 2, 2015)
Labor Day weekend is virtually upon us and while it’s not the “Mother of All Holidays” (that is obviously Thanksgiving), it is still a pretty good one as we celebrate the economic and social...
View ArticleValley People (Sep 2, 2015)
GRAPES aren't the only crop gathered early this year. Outdoor marijuana is also about a month earlier than usual, which probably accounts for the local influx of young people to work as pot trimmers. I...
View ArticleBoonville’s Fiery Fourth
Juan Alarcon and his wife went to the brewery in Boonville to celebrate the Fourth of July at the beer bar. Mr. Alarcon works at the Boonville Brewery and drinks the beer he helps make there. As the...
View ArticleHillary: A Burp of a Dishonest Hiccup
Clinton is the human equivalent of the toaster oven shelf at the Goodwill Store: stained and abandoned.
View ArticleLetters (Sep 2, 2015)
The Mendocino Air Quality Control Board made a terrible mistake on Aug. 28 when it rejected the Friends of Outlet Creek’s appeal of the Air Board’s decision to allow the Grist Creek Aggregates to open...
View ArticleI-SIS, I-RAQ, I-RAN
Nobody goes to war because they’re uninformed. I sure didn’t. Before I volunteered I’d done my homework and I knew more about “South Vietnam” and “North Vietnam” than nearly all of the draftees I’d be...
View ArticleGoing Dry Fast (Part 1)
Roughly 1,000 rural Sonoma County residents overflowed classrooms and small meeting chambers at five informational sessions convened by the State Water Resources Control Board. It would be hard to...
View ArticleBangers and Crash: Posh Brit School A Filth Pit Of Rape, Abuse and Lies
Maybe this is why Tony Blair can claim to be a Christian.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Sep 3, 2015
ANOTHER LAKE COUNTY WILDFIRE A hundred acre (and growing) wildland fire three or four miles north of Upper Lake has prompted evacuations, road closures; White Rock Canyon residents ordered to leave The...
View ArticleDeputy Orell Massey Interviewed by Barry Vogel
I have been in the county almost 20 years now. It has probably been the most challenging 20 years of my life. It's been very difficult at times and really tested every character trait and every emotion...
View ArticleSleeping & Waking
When some years ago I read a piece by Ernest Hemingway called Now I Lay Me, I thought there was nothing further to be said about insomnia. I see now that that was because I had never had much; it...
View ArticleIda Four
Two hours into tonight’s Open Mike at Club Muse, a dumpy old pub on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond California, most of the eighty-seven patrons have ceased to pay attention to the performers—the music...
View ArticleA Sin To Stay Down: A Boont Noir (Chapter 4)
The electric gate wasn’t working and Ella had to get out of the truck and drag it open herself, which probably screwed things up worse and would make the gate harder to fix later, then she had to get...
View ArticlePanther Soccer 2015
The 2015 season opened last Tuesday afternoon on just the second day of school. The opponents were the Knights from Kelseyville who made the journey from smoky Lake County and arrived with a much...
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