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Mendocino County Today: July 1, 2013
IT’S HOT AND GETTING HOTTER, with temperatures averaging 102 from Boonville east. Sunday, it reached 97 in Mendocino County’s most happening town, which is Boonville, if you absolutely must be told. It...
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Mendocino County Today: July 2, 2013
WILLITS BYPASS PROTESTER Will Parrish, aka Red Tail Hawk, was arrested Monday morning after being cut out of the metal sleeve by which he’d fastened himself some 60 feet above ground on a piece of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today, July 3, 2013
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE ANN MOORMAN last week stood up to a brazen attempt by Supervisor Hamburg to rig a court appearance for his troubled son. I know, I know. Fathers and sons, etc. But, as described by...
View ArticleThe Alarming State Of Rural Internet
On Friday, members of the Broadband Alliance of Mendocino County and Access Sonoma Broadband presented a chilling report on the future of broadband in Northern California. The event, titled, “The State...
View ArticleForgive Us Our Trespasses…
I am writing this with a stubby pencil inside Mendocino County Jail where I am accompanied by five other brave “trespassers” including my daughter, Thea, Earth Firster Naomi Wagner and Matthew...
View ArticleHamburg’s Latest End-Around
On Tuesday June 25th a bench warrant was issued for Matthew Hamburg, the troubled son of Fifth District Supervisor Dan Hamburg. Matthew had bailed on a promise to appear at a hearing that day. He had...
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Booze In Mendo: Menace Or Cash Cow?
Marlon Cryer, whose wife directs the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, was arrested last year for drunk driving. He was wearing this shirt at the time. Cash cow, of course. And a...
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You Can Shove Your Wars!
Black Watch. “Black Watch,” the ‘Five Star’ Scottish military play that has been touted in expensive ads all over the Bay Area as “The #1 Theatrical Event of the Year,” (New York Times) delivered a...
View ArticleDancing With Destiny
“Do not blame others for things that you have brought upon yourself.” — Alexander McCall Smith Do we, indeed, bring things upon ourselves? Are we the masters of our own destinies or are we pawns of...
View ArticleRiver Views
A couple of weeks ago I walked into the Coast Hardware Store in Fort Bragg for my annual purchase of a sleeve or two of .22 shorts. Usually, when the clerk asks what they are for I reply “target...
View ArticlePrice Gouging With FDA Approval
Anyone using colchicine, one of the best treatments for gout, is in for a nasty surprise, compliments of the FDA and the rapacious actions of URL Pharmaceuticals and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Until...
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Brian Wilson
The Beach Man cometh. The album “Brian Wilson” by the Beach Man Brian Wilson. First you start with the album, then you add your friend in Manhattan Beach; then you throw in your birthday wish: a sunset...
View ArticleValley People
A BAD THING HAPPENED in central Boonville about 4pm Sunday, but by 9pm a very good thing had happened at the same place. The bad thing happened when a Subaru, driven by a woman later arrested for...
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Mendocino County Today: July 4, 2013
FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA WEEKEND IS HERE! City of Point Arena invites you to join us in the festivities on Saturday July 6th from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Arena Cove Back to Back Bands! Enjoy Live Music By...
View ArticleKate Wolf
The Kate Wolf Music Festival is put on annually by Bob and Sue Barsotti at their Black Oak Ranch five miles north of Laytonville. Bob Barsotti was partners with Bill Graham during the heyday of the...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
MAX RASPECT, MON Editor, The Sierra Nevada World Music would like to extend a GIGANTIC THANK YOU to all those involved in making our 20th annual summer solstice celebration one of the greatest ever....
View ArticleOff The Record
WILLITS BYPASS PROTESTER, Will Parrish, aka Red Tail Hawk, was arrested Monday morning after being cut out of the metal sleeve by which he’d fastened himself some 60 feet above ground on a piece of...
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Mendocino County Today: July 5, 2013
WHAT ABOUT SOME PATRIOTISM FOR AMERICA? A Message to Big Corporations by RALPH NADER The 4th of July is synonymous with patriotism. Tomorrow, all over the country, Americans will congregate to spend...
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Mendocino County Today: July 6, 2013
THE FABULOUS IRONY OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM July 4 2013 by Jeff Costello Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — G.B. Shaw Patriotism is...
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Mendocino County Today: July 7, 2013
WINE TASTING By Howard Belkamp Ramblin’ around this dirty old town Scroungin’ for nickels and dimes Times getting rough I ain’t got enough To buy me a bottle of wine Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine...
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