Piano Concert in Mendocino
Coast Chamber Concerts presents pianist Frank Wiens on Sunday, November 8 at 3 p.m. in Preston Hall, Mendocino. Known for his technical brilliance, Mr. Wiens has performed in major concert halls across...
View ArticleGetting Out of Dodge
Sometimes it’s good to get out of the Valley and see a thing or two. My Mom Muriel Ellis decided to go to a writer’s conference at the Shattuck Hotel in Berkeley. I suggested that she bring me along...
View ArticleNavarro River Monitoring Presentation
Monday November 9th, from 6-9 pm at the AV Grange in Philo. Dr. Christopher Woltemade, Geography-Earth Science Professor from Shippensburg University, will be presenting on "Stream Temperatures in the...
View ArticleOff the Record (Oct 28, 2015)
WE SPOKE LAST WEEK with a retired County Mental Health staffer familiar with Mental Health services before and after Ortner. ORTNER MANAGEMENT GROUP is a for-profit business based in Yuba City. The...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Oct 28, 2015)
This weekend sees the end of Daylight Savings Time and therefore the clocks go back. So when it is almost dark on Sunday evening, it will be 6pm, not 7pm.
View ArticleValley People (Oct 28, 2015)
A SPRINKLING of rain dampened Anderson Valley early Monday morning. Forecasters say we'll get up to another quarter inch Tuesday night and into Wednesday.
View ArticleHolding The Helping Pros Accountable
Last Wednesday the helping professionals from County Mental Health, led by newly appointed interim County Counsel Katherine ‘Kit’ Elliott, the helping pros came to court to answer to a summons from...
View ArticleGraphic Novels
Last night we watched a DVD of the new movie People, Places, Things. The film did not have a theatrical release, which is the fate of most movies made in America these days unless they are massively...
View ArticleThe Reluctant Consumer Redux
My father was an anarchist and didn't know it. When the Connecticut State Police first made the announcement that "driving is not a right, it is a privilege" sometime around 1960, he fumed and...
View ArticleThe Last Newspaper?
While I rarely practice it, I know what real news journalism looks like. It’s the who, what, where, when and why of an event—presumably one that’s important or at least interesting. The Five Ws are...
View ArticleLake County’s Summer Of Pain
There has never been a summer of wildfires like the one residents of Lake County endured in 2015, both in number and in size. It began with the July 29th Rocky fire, which burned 69,438 acres and...
View ArticleCoast Hospital Suffers Another Relapse
The Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) is in turmoil. Sure, if you go in for a routine blood draw, you will get prompt, positive service, and you won't even notice the pinprick. However, the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct 28, 2015
Lintott Apology; FB Initiative; Winemaking; Cannabis Hour; Supermoon; Laytonville Teens; Marijuana Losses; Lisa Returns; Yesterday's Catch; LaForge Sentenced; SoHum Economy; Intelligent Conversation;...
View ArticleEverybody Out Of The Box
Somebody actually told me recently to "think outside the box." Please. If this phrase ever had any meaning at all it's become obscured in a fog of overuse and irony. To me, the expression stinks of...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Oct 28, 2015)
Following the excellent victory over previously undefeated Roseland Prep in Friday afternoon’s Homecoming Game on October 16, it was back to the routine of practice on Monday afternoon in preparation...
View ArticleLetters (Oct 28, 2015)
I am writing in regard to the proposal for a potential water and sewer system in Boonville. As a resident who will be affected by this plan l attended the meeting held at the Mendocino County...
View ArticleMental Health Merry-Go-Round
Last Tuesday the Board of Supervisors heard a short presentation from consultant Lee Kemper about the mental health system audit CEO Carmel Angeo has hired him to do. Angelo: “There has been interest...
View ArticleBattle Heats Up Over Gualala Redwoods
Campaigns to save majestic coastal redwood groves have been waged for more than a century, starting with the campaign that created Big Basin State Park in 1902. In 1978, the Sierra Club even dubbed its...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thurs., Oct 29, 2015
FROM THE SUPERVISORS MEETING, October 26 regarding the State’s wonderful new medical marijuana regulatory scheme signed into law last month by Governor Brown: To Tax Pot Or Not Tax Pot, that is the...
View ArticleBreyer to DEA: Acts of Congress Matter
“This court has a lengthy history with this defendant on these issues,” wrote US District Judge Charles Breyer in an order filed October 19 allowing the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana to reopen...
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