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DANNY AND GINGER JOHNSTON have raised three, smart, well-behaved, ambitious boys, the kind of youngsters any school district would be delighted to have in their classrooms. The Johnston’s athletic son,...
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CRAWDAD NELSON WRITES: “I understand how easy it is to want to do something violent to an unknown perpetrator; I also get how easy it is to decide who the perpetrator is by some sort of magical...
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Mendocino County Today: April 25, 2013
SINCE KZYX IS NPR, standards of local/community broadcasting cannot be applied, and I’m afraid you’re languishing in the past to think otherwise. NPR is akin to Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, just another...
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Mendocino County Today: April 26, 2013
The Caltrans Bypass Wetlands ‘Mitigation’ Fiasco by Will Parrish “Learning more about the sustainable approach and care that has gone into the Willits Bypass Project offers special insight into...
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Mendocino County Today: April 27, 2013
IF YOU’VE NEVER attended the Anderson Valley Wild Flower Show we’re here to tell you it’s worth the drive to Boonville tomorrow or Sunday. The ladies who put it on really knock themselves out, and the...
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Mendocino County Today: April 28, 2013
THE FOLLOWING have been described by CareerCast as the worst jobs, with newspaper reporter being the absolute worst job. CareerCast does not elaborate other than to state that reporters make an average...
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Mendocino County Today: April 29, 2013
ACCORDING TO a wine-grower profile by Congressman Huffman’s (formerly Congressman Thompson’s) aide Heidi Cusick Dickerson back in 2010, Milovina Vineyards grows several varieties of grapes at their...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: April 30, 2013
THERE WERE THREE AB DIVING DEATHS over the weekend, one off MacKerricher north of Fort Bragg identified as that of Henry Choy, 50, of San Bruno. Kenneth Liu, 36, of San Francisco was caught in a rip...
View ArticleA Theft Near Albion; Reward Offered
On Thursday, April 25, between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., while visiting the Mendocino Land Trust Navarro Point property on Hwy. 1 about 1.5 miles south of Albion before visiting friends in the Anderson...
View ArticleWhat’s Next For Caltrans & The Willits Bypass?
On May 7th, Caltrans goes hat-in-hand to the California Transportation Commission (CTC), which allocates funding for California transportation infrastructure projects, to request $30.986 million for...
View ArticleA Girl, A Hunting Party & Jack Daniels
Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten. Repeat ‘impossible men’: not merely...
View ArticleMilovina Fined
According to a wine-grower profile by Congressman Huffman’s (formerly Congressman Thompson’s) aide Heidi Cusick Dickerson back in 2010, Milovina Vineyards grows several varieties of grapes at their...
View ArticleThe Bypass ‘Mitigation’ Charade
In Little Lake Valley, aka the Willits Valley, CalTrans is preparing to destroy the largest area of wetlands as part of any Northern California construction project since at least 1977. That was the...
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Mendocino County Today: May 1, 2013
Garrett Rodriguez FROM the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: “Seeking the public’s help in locating a missing person. On 04-25-2013 a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy spoke on the telephone with the...
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BILL HARPER brings us the terrible news that Henry Hill died last Wednesday at his Navarro home. The story of Henry’s remarkable life appears in next week’s paper.Subscribe now to access our entire...
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THE HAMBURG-ROBERTS 2010 race for Fifth District Supervisor was, for laid-back Mendocino County, intense and bitter while it was underway, and unlikely to become less bitter with the news that the...
View ArticleRogue Wave
“… for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels… But He, that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my Sail!…” —...
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“Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.” — W.C. Fields This just in: Ben Affleck, the movie star, is going to try to survive for five days spending only...
View ArticleBack In The Hands Of Hippies
“I have my doubts as to where I belong. It’s something to think about.” — Green Day, Disappearing Boy * * * I’ve never been one for heeding others’ advice. I’ll listen politely, acknowledge its...
View ArticlePrince’s Sign O’ The Times
When The Artist Again Known As Prince first exploded into superstardom three decades ago, I had just moved to San Francisco and his music — “Purple Rain,” “Little Red Corvette,” “1999” and so forth,...
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