Going Dry Fast (Part 2)
For years, wine industry leaders have opposed regulation on the grounds that it is burdensome and of questionable value. California agribusiness representatives have consistently maintained that they...
View ArticleThe Big Trees
The biggest Eucalyptus tree is not Clint Eastwood’s Blue Gum in Carmel, but the Alexander Cockburn Tree in Petrolia. A team of scientists showed up with measuring devices officially validating and...
View ArticleGiants & Dodgers
In my dotage I am willing to admit that my loathing of the Los Angeles Dodgers is irrational, primitive, and downright silly, but I loathe them nonetheless and have hated them with a vengeance since...
View ArticleDrought On The Coast
“Droughts come and go,” Stroeh tells me on a hot dusty August afternoon. “They’re part of the way we live, though now we also have global climate change, along with extremes such as floods and...
View ArticleDevil’s Weed in Fort Bragg
The house that I live in is now 35 years old. It was constructed largely from the lumber produced out of a single redwood that had toppled to the ground a century before. Though the property is a...
View ArticleThere’s Evil, Then There’s These Guys
Last Wednesday the County Courthouse was something of an old-fashioned media circus. Media ghouls, always keen for second hand blood, were drawn from near and far to watch a pair of monsters get their...
View ArticleLetters (Sep 9, 2015)
I have been using herbicides to control hardwoods, including tan oak, in my redwood forest in Comptche since 1985. I also do thinning and pruning of young trees, and logging, all of which produce dry...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Sep 9, 2015)
We have a very significant birthday celebration coming up this weekend here in Anderson Valley. Our community’s oldest man, Ross Murray, will be turning 97 years of age. Yes, Ross was born on 16th...
View ArticleValley People (Sep 9, 2015)
MARK GOWAN thinks this mystery photograph is the old Floodgate Cafe when the Averys owned the place. And not only is Mark convinced, he says he's got the old bar counter at his Little River home, "safe...
View ArticleLong Time Coming, Long Time Gone
On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth last June, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of northern New Mexico. My fingers gripped...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Escape From Boredom
If prison has taught me anything — and it damn well better have, representing at this point about 23% of my life thus far, a significantly longer period than that of my formal education — it's how to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Sep 10, 2015
Zeke Grader; Budget Hearing; Saturday's Game; Police Reports; Yesterday's Catch; Riveting Presentation; Whistleblower Workshops; Picking Poems; Asphalt Creek; Stop Privatizing; Mad Sociopaths; Minimum...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Sep 10, 2015)
Last Wednesday afternoon the team headed out of Boonville for one of their longest road trips of the season — to Middletown in Lake County, over two hours to the east, a non-league game. No driver...
View ArticleA Sin To Stay Down: A Boont Noir (Chapter 5)
By the light of the moon, the last thing Javier thought he’d see in the middle of the barren Arizona desert were all these empty water bottles. No humans for miles, other than his group in loose single...
View ArticleElectronic Sturm und Atonal Drang
Live long enough if you’re human, or stand long enough if you’re a building, and you’ll witness history overtake you. For the phenomenon to assume public form you must have attained some measure of...
View ArticleMuseum Sale Fundraiser
Over the next three weekends in September, the Grace Hudson Museum teams up with the Mendocino County Arts Association and other artists and arts organizations to host a wonderfully big sale. On offer...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Sep 11, 2015
Weather Report; Winter Shelter; Ukiah Test Scores; Wits End; FB Politics; Yesterday's Catch; Bankrupt Feminism; Dance Negotiation; Permanent Intermittent; Murray 97; Outage Survey; Sameway; Pension...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Sep 12, 2015
Pension King; FB Initiative; Communication Breakdown; Marijuana Regulation; Warrant Wednesday; Catch of the Day; Encyclical; Manufacturing Consent; Millwright View; Booing Ginsberg; Mime Regression;...
View ArticleCraft Exhibition in Mendocino
In celebration of October’s American Craft Week, AIM (Artists in Mendocino) and MCF (Mendocino Coast FurnitureMakers) have joined together to present a diverse exhibition of contemporary craft....
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