Bird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. There are a number of things going on in the Valley in the next week or so and therefore I thought we should start with the...
View ArticleWhat Happened To Kathy Corral?
Dear Editor: My name is Kathy Corral and I am the former Manager of the Dental Clinic at Anderson Valley Health Center. Due to an Executive Management and Board of Directors’ decision my position was...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
Dearest Editor, Tonto and QueNoSabe (or QuienNoSabe) called each other names. One called one “QueNoSabe” (or “QuienNoSabe”), which means “One Who Doesn’t Know”, in Spanish, and the other one called the...
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Mendocino County Today: August 8, 2013
(ED NOTE: Someone is bulk purchasing all available hard copy AVAs from our outlets in Ukiah, coincidentally the same issue which features the Peter Richardson marijuana case on the front page above the...
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Mendocino County Today: August 9, 2013
A 66-YEAR-OLD MAN, not yet identified, died in a single-vehicle crash near Laytonville on Monday afternoon about 3. The deceased, driving alone in a 2003 Ford SUV, unaccountably ran off the east edge...
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Mendocino County Today: August 10, 2013
LIKE MANY LOCALS, I’ve enjoyed the Haul Road north of Fort Bragg for years, an amenity we enjoy courtesy of the padrones of yesterday’s timber industry, and an amenity enjoyed by few other towns...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: August 11, 2013
WE’VE COMPLAINED for years that California River Watch, in Occidental, is operated as a non-profit shakedown racket by a man named Jack Silver. Silver rifles the reports filed with the North Coast...
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Mendocino County Today: August 12, 2013
THE UKIAH VALLEY Medical Center is a for-profit medical complex owned and operated by the tax-exempt 7th Adventist Church. The Center announced last week that it has eliminated six jobs because, it...
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Mendocino County Today: August 13, 2013
NORM FLUHER of Mendocino’s venerable Blair House used to sit on the board of the Mendocino County Lodging Association until he was purged from that august body for asking the un-askable. Mr. Fluher...
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JOHN CHAMBERLIN’S MEMORIAL PARTY will be Saturday, August 31, at the Greenwood Community Center in Elk, from 3 to 11 pm. Potluck and bring your own drinks. Music by dozens of John’s friends, a silent...
View ArticlePeter Richardson, Take Two
With the announcement by Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN Sunday that marijuana has been shown to reduce the size of cancer tumors, the testimony of Dr. John Palmer Lovejoy in the medical marijuana case of...
View ArticleTreeless Logging, Mendo Style
Mendocino County owns 57 acres of “productive timberland” near Little River Airport on the Coast. The property was profitably logged back in 1996 during the “cut and run” days as Louisiana-Pacific and...
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Living In A Wick Drain Stitcher, Part 1
“You are from somewhere if you know the names and stories of the hills, the springs, and the mountains. If you can name the plants and the animals on it. You are from somewhere if you dream of it in...
View ArticleValley People
A CLOSER LOOK at the thuggish dismissal of Kathy Corral reveals that the overall survival of the Anderson Valley Health Center might be more precarious than many of us thought. The dental clinic has...
View ArticleOff The Record
WE’VE COMPLAINED for years that California River Watch, vaguely based in Occidental (Sonoma County), is operated as a shakedown racket by a man named Jack Silver. Silver rifles the reports filed by...
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Mendocino County Today: August 14, 2013
MENDOCINO COUNTY has needed a slaughterhouse forever, and maybe we’re about to get one. The Economic Development & Financing Corporation (EDFC) will hold a public meeting next month to discuss...
View ArticleIdiots
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain I realize it is not, in Buddhist terms, skillful speech to call anyone an idiot, but there are...
View ArticlePrince Of Pompadoodle Takes The Train
* The Prince of Pompadoodle is from A. A. Milne’s children’s book of poems, When I Was Six. (1999) — I was told it was only going to be a journey of a few leagues. As my league work wasn’t up to snuff...
View ArticlePaulina Peak
The spirit of our society is to contrive but not enjoy… Toiling to produce more toil—accumulating in order to aggrandize. The pleasures of the imagination, among which the love of scenery holds a...
View ArticleWomen Singers Through A White Male Lens
Aside from its winning title, the best material offered up by the documentary film Twenty Feet from Stardom are the musical performances, seen and — more important — heard both in footage of concerts...
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