Ecotones
In 1900 my grandpa Patterson was born in a coal camp high up on the Arkansas River in the Colorado Rockies. A self-taught free-thinker, syndicated columnist and cartoonist (and no blood kin to me), my...
View ArticleRiver Views
During the final weekend of April three abalone divers drowned in accidents off the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts. One of these accidents killed 66-year-old Cedric Collett. Cedric Collett was a retired...
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Still Drug Crazy
Mike Gray died recently at 77 years of age, with prominent obituaries in some publications due to his status as a successful movie screenwriter – his most famous screenplay being “The China Syndrome”...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. With so much happening over the next week or two around these parts, particularly for Memorial Day weekend, it would be very...
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Mendocino County Today: May 23, 2013
A YOUTHFUL MALE VOICE on our Tuesday afternoon hotline told us that Darryl Cherney would be on KZYX at 3pm. My reaction to certain names, Cherney’s among them, is a brief moment of groaning despair...
View ArticlePhone, Power & Water
Change is inevitable, even in Anderson Valley. Some aspects of the valley have changed markedly from when I first arrived in the late 1950s and some hardly at all. Back in November, in my article...
View ArticleCaution: Jazz At Work
I never got around to writing my intended tribute to the great American bassist Ron Carter last year at this time on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Carter entered the jazz canon 50 years ago when...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
839 MILES OF WICK May 19, 2013 To: Jane M. Hicks, Chief, Regulatory Division, San Francisco District, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1398 Re: Request for...
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Mendocino County Today: May 24, 2013
A LOW INTENSITY war is underway between Mendo law enforcement and Meredith Ford, the County’s Auditor/Controller over Prop.172, a sales tax measure from the 1990s designed to help fund “public safety.”...
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Mendocino County Today: May 25, 2013
IT TOOK US a while to figure out the specific nature of the scam at the North Coast Railroad Authority. There’s no way a railroad that runs almost no trains can be financially viable even if they rent...
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Mendocino County Today: May 26, 2012
RICHARD POOLE JR. and Scott Anderson came by the Boonville office the other day. They’d driven down from Willits where Poole owns property at 195 E. Oak, a couple of blocks from Main Street. Poole is...
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Mendocino County Today: May 27, 2013
A SENIOR TICKET to see the Terracotta Warriors at the Asian Art Museum costs $16 bucks; once you’re inside you’re informed they are five life-size facsimiles, but what the hey, what’s one more little...
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Mendocino County Today: May 28, 2013
EULOGY FOR A VETERAN (Author Unknown) Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on...
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Mendocino County Today: May 29, 2013
Mullins MAN BEATER OF THE WEEK: Ms. Miranda Mullins of Willits. Miranda, 18, is a large, attractive young woman whose bail was set at the minimum $10,000 for an allegation of domestic violence. Big...
View ArticleRoad Notes: San Francisco-Denver
Picnic on Donner Pass — No meat. Plaque I’d like to see at the Donner Summit: “They Bit off More Than They Could Chew” In Sausalito we had lunch with a friend of M’s late husband. The guy is a Mormon...
View ArticleJohn Dalton vs. Egregious Government Misconduct
John Dalton, now 58, has been in federal prison for more than 17 years on marijuana-related charges. Dalton was put in prison by rogue DEA agents who seduced his wife, making her their informant. At...
View ArticleValley People
MASSIVE ABALONE interdiction in Boonville Monday morning. A large number of Fish and Game wardens set up a roadblock at the Boonville Fairgrounds. Through traffic was diverted into the Fairgrounds...
View ArticleOff The Record
RICHARD POOLE JR. and Scott Anderson came by the Boonville office the other day. They’d driven down from Willits where Poole owns property at 195 E. Oak, a couple of blocks from Main Street. Poole is...
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Road Rage Randall
Arthur Randall Arthur Randall, a Ukiah tow truck driver by profession, knows his way around town, and the quickest way to get from South State Street to his girlfriend’s work on the corner of Dora and...
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Oh Danny Boy
Cult leader Adi Da Samraj & Supervisor Dan Hamburg. On Samraj’s website Hamburg wrote, “I suppose the understanding that politics must be imbued spirituality began when I was very young.” There’s...
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