Worlds Collide
“There are only two emotions in Wall Street: fear and greed.” — William Le Fevre In search of good chicken for our once-a-week intake of animal flesh, I saunter into our magnifico Mendocino Market...
View ArticleBeyond Killing The Bees
As Spring merges into summer, our gaze turns to our lawns, and we are tempted to envision green carpets and lawnmowers… and poisons. Craneflies, those delicate beauties we call “mosquito hawks,”...
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Prohibition ’37: The AMA Dissents
William C. Woodward Continued from last week’s AVA, the 1937 hearing at which the House Ways & Means Committee considered marijuana prohibition. * * * NARRATOR: Act Three, “The Grilling of Doctor...
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James Dean Lives!
Marfa, Texas, of all places. Three hours southwest out of El Paso, Texas, of all places. Los Angeles, Paso Robles, Cholame, CA, Fairmount, IN, Manhattan, NY. Some of the James Dean sites I set my...
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Riding The Rim
Welcome to Harney County. Photo courtesy Ken Lund. “Fill ‘er with regular, please.” I said to the attendant as I handed over my plastic. “Fine weather, ain’t it?” “Shore is,” he affirmed, glancing up...
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River Views
Ye Old Mendocino County One hundred thirty-two years ago a Little Lake coroner’s jury reached a finding that my great grandfather’s horse had justifiably shot and killed Benjamin Frost on the trail...
View ArticleValley People
JESSICA CEJA is a student at Anderson Valley High School where the school’s Junior Prom was held last Saturday night. Jessica, a gregarious girl popular with her classmates, had previously bought a...
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Mendocino County Today: June 6, 2013
HAMBURG CLAIMS DAMAGES FROM THE COUNTY Dan Hamburg’s Claim Against Mendocino County [Attorney Barry Vogel's Letterhead] May 28, 2013 To: Thomas Parker, Mendocino County Counsel Re: Claim Against...
View ArticleFROM THE ARCHIVE: Should Tim ‘Coke’ Elliot Get A New Trial?
“I respect Ms. Thompson, but this is basic stuff, right out of criminal law procedure 101,” attorney Jan Cole-Wilson said. “Any lawyer should know this.” Ms. Cole-Wilson, as she argued for a new trial...
View ArticleOff The Record
THE HAMBURG BURIAL SAGA CONTINUES. If you came in late, the Hamburg family buried the late Carrie Hamburg on the family’s 46 acre home site southwest of Ukiah. Mendocino County’s Department of Health...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
TOTAL REPEAL Editor, Re: Jeff Costello’s April 18 piece, “The Crackpot Files” — Ahh, another appreciator of Thomas Szasz! Yes, he talked to a friend of mine who asked “what should we do about drugs and...
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Mendocino County Today: June 7, 2013
(CORRECTED ITEM) RAUL MALFAVON, 23, of Ray’s Road, Philo, was found dead Thursday morning about 6. Malfavon, an unmarried single man with a girlfriend, is assumed to have hanged himself....
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Mendocino County Today: June 8, 2013
(CORRECTED ITEM) RAUL MALFAVON, 23, of Ray’s Road, Philo, was found dead Thursday morning about 6. Malfavon, an unmarried single man with a girlfriend, is assumed to have hanged himself....
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Mendocino County Today: June 9, 2013
Soto LATE FRIDAY the Highway Patrol released the name of the young man who stole the car of a Coast volunteer firefighter on Wednesday and then lead a parade of cops and firefighters on an exciting...
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Mendocino County Today: June 10, 2013
A DRAMATIC AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED between the Coast Hospital Employees Union and Coast Hospital which is estimated to save the Hospital $1.85 million. The agreement which was approved by almost 90%...
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Mendocino County Today: June 11, 2013
COMING FROM the incoherent country of America where town and country have become inseparable, the towns slurbing every which way, Scotland is a revelation. Town is town, country is country, and town...
View ArticleSmall Scale House Building
Old-timers remember Malvina Reynolds’s satiric song, “Little Boxes.” Penned in 1962, the song heralded the coming suburban blight, where poorly constructed houses “were made of ticky-tacky and they all...
View Article‘The Slung-Shot’ / Rope-Lock
Craig Barnett of Fort Bragg was on his way to check in with his probation officer and stopped at a second-hand store where one can often find a good deal on any number of useful things. On this...
View ArticlePrivatizing Mendo’s Mental Health
Mental health services in Mendocino County are at best very limited and underfunded, and several high-profile examples of inadequate responses have come to light in recent months and years. The...
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Once A Lawyer, Now A Tree Sitter
Tanya Ridino The Clean Water Act lawsuit that aims to halt construction of the California Department of Transportation’s current version of the Willits Bypass will be heard in a San Francisco federal...
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