Valley People (Nov 11, 2015)
IT'S BEEN A BANNER YEAR for high school sports in the Anderson Valley. The girl's volleyball team is league champs and has a good shot at the small school regional title; our perennial powerhouse of a...
View ArticleA Brief History Of Early Mendocino County
Feliz Creek today, where it passes beneath highway 101 at Hopland is, in the summer, a parched expanse of dry streambed that is barely discernible as a watercourse. Only when it comes alive in the...
View ArticleOff the Record (Nov 11, 2015)
STILL NO SIGN OF ASHA KREIMER, 26, the young Australian woman last seen at the Rollerville Cafe near Point Arena about 9:30am on Friday, September 21st. She had been driven there by her boyfriend,...
View ArticleAV Wins Second Championship In A Row
Saturday, November 7, 2015, a day that will live on the memories of Anderson Valley football fans. It was the high school football championship game for North Coast League III between the Anderson...
View ArticleNetwork of Spies
Willie Fisher was born in 1903 at Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, the second son of a man who had been a revolutionary agitator alongside Vladimir Lenin in the 1890s in Saint Petersburg. Charged with...
View ArticleLetters (Nov 11, 2015)
This replies to Mr. Peter Brown’s letter to the Ukiah Daily Journal Editor of October 28 that Dollar General should be allowed to build one of its 9100 Square box stores in Redwood Valley because, to...
View ArticleHarper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’
Propaganda. The motivation for this book is obviously Ms. Lee's desire to ameliorate the national media clamor against the southern states brought on by the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board...
View ArticlePanther Soccer Playoffs (Nov 11, 2015)
The 2015 Play-offs began last Saturday afternoon with the AV Panthers seeking their fifth Small School Championship in the last six years. Given the #1 seeding, and following a first round bye, in the...
View ArticleOld Books
I recently came upon an old book I inherited from my grandmother Goody, The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of English Literature published in 1939, a seventy-five-year-old book that has provided me with...
View ArticleNephew Of Avarice, Once Removed
As an addict — as a dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying, ginuwine, for-real, tweak-seeking meth-missile — I have been known to take some fairly extreme measures to acquire the necessary chemicals in order...
View ArticleGetting Off The Pharmaceuticals
In the last 20 years there has been a proliferation of psychiatric drugs prescribed in the United States, not only by psychiatrists but by general practitioners. Anti-depressants, specifically SSRI's...
View ArticleFort Bragg Politics
At the last Fort Bragg city council meeting I apparently called Scott Dietz our esteemed councilman a criminal. The following day he confronted me with this at the public works committee meeting, which...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Nov 11, 2015
Football Camp; Grape Jack; MendoVito Kaput; Nelson's Boondoggle; Sleazy Judges; Bag Spill; Bumper Pot; Yesterday's Catch; Covelo Scuffle; Virtual Martian; Wonderful Lie; Poplars; Shove It; Maritime...
View ArticleRIP Carol Doda!
Another legend shuffles into the fog, as the City by the Bay continues its tragic descent into meaningless start-up wankfests.
View ArticleNo One Ever Intends to Suffer
We can all agree on some basic facts: Eureka is a seaside town, rundown in some places, charming in others, dotted here and there with the stately form of some impressive architecture. There’s often...
View ArticlePrejudice & Mistaken Identity
It’s not unusual, however unfair, for people to look askance at outsiders who dress, talk, or act differently, especially if they come in groups. One such group, commonly known as Gypsies, have been...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Nov 12, 2015
Veteran Reporters; Inmate BBQ; Drawing Fire; Conspiracies from Injustice; Thoughts Stream; Wolfe's Resignation; Murder Trial; Revolutionary Mischief; LakeCo Realestate; Yesterday's Catch; Child...
View ArticleDisoriented
Makes sense I’d get “lost” in the juniper forest sprawled across the southeast corner of what geologists call the Lava Plains and everybody else the Bottomlands. Also, at least if you’re familiar with...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Nov 13, 2015
Grist Violations; Water Issues; Courtney Exit; LakeCo Tribulations; Downtown Ukiah; Cognitive Magnification; Doda Memory; Indigenous Vets; NFL Advertising; Undercover Security; Robert Willeford; Leslie...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Nov 14, 2015
Paris Under Attack; Second Coming; Mutual Murder; County Pensions; Hendy Update; HHSA Presentation; Yesterday's Catch; California's Future; Bridge Demolition; Sheriff Radio; Oaky Invitation; Arcata...
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