Water & Sewer For Boonville? Take 2
Mendocino County's Chief Planner Andy Gustavson opened last Thursday night's meeting. It was the second called to discuss a possible water and sewer system for downtown Boonville and some of the...
View ArticleNorth Country to Change Hands
45 years ago Michael Shapiro came to Anderson Valley with little but an idea that he wanted to live in this beautiful place and make a living and raise a family. He began this journey with a few fits...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Oct 30, 2015
Social Security; Toxic Smoke; Wildlife Habitat; Lapel Flag; DUI Conviction; Veterans Memorial; Mailbox Gang; Mystery Man; Caltrans Stalling; Another Stabbing; Not Habitable; Yesterday's Catch;...
View ArticleVietnam Veterans Memorial
The Mendocino County Museum will host the unveiling and dedication ceremony of the Mendocino County Fallen Vietnam War Veterans memorial at 2 p.m. on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11. The public is...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015
Time & Weather; Tribes Sue Caltrans; FB Trails; Circus Tent; Willits Water; Poisoned Forest; Rollover Fatality; New Weed Rules; Yesterday's Bookings; AV School Board; Bernie HQ; Statistical BS;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Nov 1, 2015
FB Halloween; Costumes; Severe Beating; Manufactured Hazard; PA Incorporation; Allman Remarks; Newspaper Editing; Fire Survivors; Police Reports; Hil-o-gram; School Walkout; Fukushima Disaster;...
View ArticleChristmas Tree Permits
Beginning Sunday, November 1, Christmas tree permits will be available from the Mendocino National Forest for the 2015 holiday season. Permits are available for purchase in person or by mail from...
View ArticleA View From London
Are we living evermore in some vast corporate art installation? Here is a precis of what I see in my beloved Londinium. Militant profiteering from the nightmarishly unrepentant British Establishment....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Nov 2, 2015
Local Football; Annex KochBros; Chow Down; Poe Walnuts; Dollar General; Stabbing Suspect; FB Water; DST Preview; Ghost Train; Highway Funds; Farmworker Survey; Housing Homeless; Heroin Addiction; Trump...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Nov 3, 2015
Mitchell Murders; Booking Photos; Mosquito Fern; Wine County; Boonville Pharmacy; American Schools; Beautiful People; SRA Funds; Mendo Gym; Yesterday's Catch; Doctor UpRohr; Algae Threat; Dr Harris; FB...
View ArticleValley People (Nov 4, 2015)
IF THERE'S any doubt that wine rules supreme in Mendocino County, there are 12 full color, 2' X 3’, framed and glassed photos hanging on the walls of the main entrance hall of our County building...
View ArticleOff the Record (Nov 4, 2015)
LISTEN UP, FORT BRAGG. Isn't it about time the City annexed the Koch Brothers. Not them personally. Hell, what would we do with them after we annexed them? I mean the mill site. Eminent domain that...
View ArticleAnderson Valley’s Beverly Hillmuffins
Jacqueline and Anthony Witt are Anderson Valley’s reps from glamorous Beverly Hills – Anthony Witt’s father is the celebrity screenwriter Paul Junger Witt.
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Nov 4, 2015)
Many local people will no doubt be disappointed to hear that 40-year Valley resident, Diane Herron, will soon be departing to be with her family in Medford, Oregon.
View ArticleMeredith Says She’s Sorry
Former Mendocino County District Attorney, Meredith Lintott, is presently regaling County radio listeners with the following broadcast statement three times a day for a week on these four stations:...
View ArticleGood Little Maoists
Sometimes societies just go batshit crazy. For ten years, 1966 to 1976, China slid into the chaotic maw of Mao Zedong’s “cultural revolution.” A youth army called the Red Guard was given license to...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Nov 4, 2015)
Following the excellent road victory against St. Vincent a few days earlier, AV still could finish runner-up in the regular season and influence who the eventual winner would be. With two regular...
View ArticleNavigating The New Pot Rules
The California Growers Association held a free community workshop Saturday, Oct. 24, to explain the complex web of permits, licenses and regulations in the state’s new Medical Marijuana Regulation and...
View ArticleThought Control
In 1976 I was in New York when the play Comedians by the British playwright Trevor Griffiths opened on Broadway. I was so inspired by the play—I saw it twice—that when I returned to Oregon, I quit my...
View ArticlePot Run To Garberville
I was grumpy on the way to Garberville. "Garberville sounds like a stupid name, anyway. What the hell does it even mean?" I groused. "I'm just guessing, but maybe there was a person named Garber who...
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