Mendocino County Today: July 13, 2013
AS MANY of the worst men in the world assemble at Bohemian Grove, and the Press Democrat gazes, awestruck, from the prone position the paper instinctively assumes in the presence of power, Cody...
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Mendocino County Today: July 14, 2013
RECOMMENDED READING: “Spy Rock Memories” by Larry Livermore. The Mendocino County literary oeuvre is pretty thin, although there are lots of good writers in our beloved mother county. This book helps...
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Mendocino County Today: July 15, 2013
WILL PARRISH, ace eco-reporter for the AVA, was in court Friday where he learned that DA Eyster has filed “either 16 or 19 misdemeanor charges against me, including a separate ‘Unlawful Entry’ charge...
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Mendocino County Today: July 16, 2013
Hambleton ACCORDING to a Sheriff’s Department press release, Mr. Dana Brandon Hambelton, 30, of Arcata, at approximately 4pm Sunday was southbound on 101 when a deputy “observed” his “non-operational...
View ArticleFarm To Farm
Temperatures are finally climbing into the mid-90s after one of the coldest, most overcast, lingering springs on recollection. Summer crops are thirsting for sunshine. Thanks to wire hoops and plastic...
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Anticipating a federally funded runway improvement grant, the Boonville Airport Committee put out bids for an engineering consultant early this year. It’s been several years since Boonville...
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The Talmage Flag Burner
Doff your hat and clap your hand over your heart! If in uniform, snap to attention and salute! Run up the colors, and play “The Stars and Stripes Forever”! “I’m not safe at the jail,” hollered Michael...
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Case Closed
Georgina Pacheco & Robert Parks Accompanied by a DNA analyst from the state’s Department of Justice office in Eureka, Sheriff Tom Allman announced Tuesday that the 1988 rape and murder of Georgina...
View ArticleValley People
EVERYONE who knew Dick Durrett is saddened to learn of his passing. A long time resident of Yorkville, Mr. Durrett had been ill for some time. A quiet, modest man in a noisy time, we will all miss...
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Mendocino County Today: July 17, 2013
A CALLER noticed a full pallet of ammonium phosphate at Friedman Brothers, Ukiah, with a note attached that said, “Special Order, Mateel Community Center.” Why would the Mateel want golf course (and/or...
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A CALLER noticed a full pallet of ammonium phosphate at Friedman Brothers, Ukiah, with a note attached that said, “Special Order, Mateel Community Center.” Why would the Mateel want golf course (and/or...
View ArticleA Peak Too High
“Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes as to wealth. Ambition begins by accumulating as a means of happiness, and finishes by continuing to accumulate as an end.” —...
View ArticleTapestry
“In individuals, insanity is rare: but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche My brother sent me an email with a link to a page at Amazon where one can purchase,...
View ArticleHumCo & The Eel
In a letter that calls for “community action in a time of extreme need,” county supervisors are supporting a state grant funding request from the Eel River Recovery Project. The condition of the Eel...
View ArticleRiver Views
Just when the San Francisco Giants looked as dead in the baseball water as their one-time ace Tim Lincecum, little Timmy turned the tables by throwing a no-hitter last Saturday night. Though the 9-0...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all – if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s start with something I have found myself pondering quite often of late. “Is everything referred to these days as...
View ArticleEl Classico de Michoacan
Michoacan is the mostly rural Mexican State from which the vast majority of Hispanic people in this Valley originate – they tell me that it is not dissimilar to Anderson Valley in many ways. As this...
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Starving For Change
Protesters outside Corcoran Correctional Facility. Courtesy, Steve Rhodes via Flickr. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by...
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Mendocino County Today: July 18, 2013
THIS JUST IN. The Mateel Community Center, Garberville-Redway, has decided not to use ammonium sulfate to green up the grass on their Eel River venue for Reggae on the River....
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
CALTRANS v. BIRDS Editor, From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: URGENT UPDATE: In the US alone, over 250 species of birds are endangered, threatened, or of growing conservation concern. This means 1 in...
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